DREAM FACTS
Here are some quick facts. I will be adding on to this page but here is what I have for now.
Some of the dreams you dream are in color, not always in black and white as commonly believed
Everyone dreams. When people say they didn't dream they really just forgot them
The average person can go through an estimated total of about 150,000 dreams in their lifetime
Approximately 4 years are spent dreaming
You experience about 4-5 dreams a night
Animals dream too
A person who was born blind from birth dreams of touch, sound, and ideas. For those who become blind later in life, they eventually lose their visual dreams and then are composed of the other senses.
Dreaming, just like your thoughts, occurs in the cerbral cortex
A dream usually lasts from 10-40 minutes
You generally dream while in the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of light sleep
Egyptian interpreters believed that dreaming of a bad thing meant the opposite, a good thing. An example of this would be if one were to dream of death it would mean a long life
Environment plays a big role in dreaming
The longest time spent dreaming happens in the early morning
Sometimes identical twins can have the same dream due to having the same genetic components
Each period of dreaming is longer than the one that was before it
Nightmares seem to drag on for a long time but only last about 20 minutes
In Russia, scientists have said to have predicted the start of physical illnesses from their patients dreams. Many lives were saved because of this.
Alcohol makes your dreams shorter. Once an alcoholic has withdrawn from their addiction, they dream for almost 100 percent of their sleep time
Most little childrens dreams consist of animals. As they grow older, less animals appear in their dreams.Less than 8 percent of dreaming time for adults has animals in it
Apprehension and fear are most commonly experienced in childrens dreams and they normally find themselves victims.
Our muscle tone decreases when we dream. This is thought to be so that we don't act out the actions occurring in the dreams
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