Dreams: a dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occurs involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, although they have been a topic of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history.
25 Interesting Psychological Facts About Dreams:
- Half of the content in a dream is forgotten after 5 minutes and 90% is forgotten after 10 minutes.
- Children under the age of 3 do not dream about themselves.
- The average dream lasts between 10 to 15 minutes.
- People who stay up late at night are more likely to have nightmares.
- You actually burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
- Sometimes in our dreams, we hear a sound from reality, and incorporate it into our dreams.
- If you dream about strangers, it is possible that they are actual people you have met and seen in real life.
- An average person has about four dreams per night, which adds up to 1460 dreams per year.
- Pregnant women remember dreams more than other peoples. This is largely due to the extreme hormonal changes during pregnancy.
- The dream that you have a crush on somebody is a literal and real reflection of your attraction and fascination for that person.
- The colder your house is, the worse your dreams are.
- During sleep, your body becomes paralyzed to make sure you don't act out your dreams.
- Flying in a dream can symbolize personal power, joy and freedom.
- Running away in a dream cab symbolize fear, dislike and escape.
- Premonition dreams a case where people have actually had dreams about things which happened to them later, in exact same way they have dreamed about it.
- Violent dreams can be the sign of a brain disorder including dementia.
- Mentally strong individuals tend to have more nightmares.
- In our dreams, we only see faces we already know, our mind never invent faces in our dreams, we see thousands of faces everyday.
- If you are snoring, then you can't be dreaming.
- The most common emotion is anxiety, there are more negative emotions than positive emotion.
- Possible dreams signs include breathing water and seeing dead people.
- Sleeping on your stomach can include weirder, scarier and often sexier dreams. Which leads to wet dreaming.
- Sometimes while dreaming we become temporarily paralyzed our dreams may disturbed, which leads to psychosis.
- Sometimes we dream from a third person point of view, called out of body experience.
- There is a 38 to 42% chance of dreaming back in school and unprepared for a test or event.
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