Interesting Facts about Dreams

• Blind people Dream: People who became blind after death can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see images but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for seeing a person to imagine, but the body's need help for sleep is so strong that is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.
• You Forgot 90% of your Dreams: within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10 minutes 90% is gone
• Everybody Dreams: Every human being dreams but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men while women tend to dream equally about men and women.
• Dream prevent psychosis: In a recent sleep study, the students who are awakened at the begin of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability after only 3 days
• We only Dream about what we know: Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play about certain parts- Do you know your mind is not inventing those faces-they are real faces of real people that you have seen in your daily life but may not know or remember.
• Not Everyone's Dreams in Color: A full 12% of sighted people dream only in black and white. The remaining dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams.
• Dreams are not about what they are about: If you dream about particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar.
• Quitters have more vivid Dreams: People who have smokes cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience.
• External stimuli invade our dreams: This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and is incorporated in some way.
• You are Paralyzed while you sleep: Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep- most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams.