INTERESTING PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTS ABOUT DREAMS

Dreams have long been a source of curiosity. People of ancient times tried to find meaning in dreams. Here ARE the collections of interesting psychological facts about dreams 

• We can only dream about things we already know.

• The faces of people we see in the dreams are faces we have seen before in real life.

• 95% of all dreams are quickly forgotten shortly after waking.

• Approximately 80% of all dreams are in color, there are small percentages of people who claim to only dream in black and white.

• We can control our dreams.

• A lucid dream is one in which we aware that we are dreaming even though we are still asleep.

• Negative emotions such as anxiety and fear are more common in dreams.

• Blind people can dreams.

• Blind people’s dreams typically include information from other senses such as taste, sound and touch.

• We are paralyzed during our dreams. The phenomenon is known as REM atonia.

• Many dreams are common and universal. Common dreams experience include school events, feeling frozen, unable to move, arriving late, being chased, attached and falling.

• The average person has about 1460 and 2190 dreams a year.

• Dreams are responsible for many of greatest invention. a few example include;

Alternating current generator- Tesla

Periodic table- Dimitri Mendeleyev

The sewing machine- Elias Howe

Google- lary page

• We cannot snore and dream at the same time.

• Women are said to have slightly longer dreams than man.

• Your brain tends to be more active when you sleep, then when you awake.

• Babies don’t dreams of themselves until they reach at the age of 3.

• Our body burns more calories during sleeping than it does in the day time.

• Men get erection in REM sleep.

• We cannot read in dream because dreaming and reading are function of different side of the brain.

• Dreams reveal feelings that you have hidden or repressed because dreams are the reflection of unconscious mind.

• In an average lifetime, we spend 6 year dreaming.

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