Dreams
1. One third of our lives is spent sleeping.
2. In your lifetime, you would've spent about
6 years of it dreaming. That is more than 2,100 days spent
in a different world.
3. Dreams have been here as long as mankind.
Back in the Roman Era, striking and significant dreams were
submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.
4. Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because
you do not remember your dream does not mean that you did
not dream.
5. Dreams are indispensable. A lack of dream
activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.
6. We dream on average of one or two hours
every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night.
7. Blind people do dream. Whether visual
images will appear in their dream depends on whether they
where blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision
is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility,
and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams
are based on these senses.
8. Five minutes after the end of the dream,
half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.
9. The word dream stems from the Middle English
word, dreme which means "joy" and "music".
10. Men tend to dream more about other men,
while women dream equally about men and women.
11. Studies have shown that our brain waves
are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.
12. Dreamers who are awakened right after
REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than
those who slept through the night until morning.
13. Physiologically speaking, researchers
found that during dreaming REM sleep, males experience erections
and females experience increased vaginal blood flow - no matter
what the content of the dream. In fact, "wet dreams"
may not necessarily coincide with overtly sexual dream content.
14. People who are giving up smoking have
longer and more intense dreams.
15. Toddlers do not dream about themselves.
They do not appear in their own dreams until the age of 3
or 4.
16. If you are snoring, then you cannot be
dreaming.
17. Nightmares are common in children, typically
beginning at around age 3 and occurring up to age 7-8.
