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Dreams

Dream Facts

 

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 morethan 2,1 days spent in a different world.

!. Dreams have been here as long as man"ind. #a$" in the %oman &ra, stri"ing andsignifi$ant dreams were submitted to the enate for analysis and interpretation.

(. &verybody dreams. &)&%*#OD*+ imply be$ause you do not remember your

dream does not mean that you did not dream.

. Dreams are indispensable. - la$" of dream a$tivity $an mean protein defi$ien$y ora personality disorder.

6. e dream on average of one or two hours every night. -nd we often even have (/0 dreams in one night.

0. #lind people do dream. hether visual images will appear in their dream dependson whether they where blind at birth or be$ame blind later in life. #ut vision is not the

only sense that $onstitutes a dream. ounds, ta$tility, and smell be$omehypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses.

. ive minutes after the end of the dream, half the $ontent is forgotten. -fter tenminutes, 34 is lost.

3. The word dream stems from the 5iddle &nglish word, dreme whi$h means 7oyand musi$.

1. 5en tend to dream more about other men, while women dream e8ually aboutmen and women.

11. tudies have shown that our brain waves are more a$tive when we are dreamingthan when we are awa"e.

12. Dreamers who are awa"ened right after %&5 sleep, are able to re$all their dreamsmore vividly than those who slept through the night until morning.

1!. 9hysiologi$ally spea"ing, resear$hers found that during dreaming %&5 sleep,males e:perien$e ere$tions and females e:perien$e in$reased vaginal blood flow / no

matter what the $ontent of the dream. In fa$t, wet dreams may not ne$essarily$oin$ide with overtly se:ual dream $ontent.

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1(. 9eople who are giving up smo"ing have longer and more intense dreams.

1. Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own

dreams until the age of ! or (.

16. If you are snoring, then you $annot be dreaming.

10. ;ightmares are $ommon in $hildren, typi$ally beginning at around age ! ando$$urring up to age 0/.

1. In a poll, 604 of -meri$ans have e:perien$ed De7a )u in their dreams, o$$urringmore often in females than males.