During the Roman Era some dreams
were even submitted to the Roman Senate for analysis and dream
interpretation. They were thought to be messages from the gods. Dream
interpreters even accompanied military leaders into battles and
campaigns!
In addition to this, it is also known that many artists have received their creative ideas from their dreams.
But what do we actually know about dreams?
Here are 15 interesting facts about dreams – enjoy and what’s most important, don’t forget to share your dream stories in the comment section!
1. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces That We already Know
Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams
we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but
may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of
faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters
for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
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2. Not Everybody Dreams in Color
A full 12% of sighted people dream
exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full
color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the
majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to
change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds
are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those
changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film
and TV to color media.
3. Dreams are Symbolic
If you dream
about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about
that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your
dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
4. Emotions
The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.
5. You can have four to seven dreams in one night.
On average you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.
6. Animals Dream Too
Studies have been done on many different
animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep
as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are
running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in
a dream.
7. Body Paralysis
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.
During REM sleep the body is paralyzed
by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which
occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it
is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after
normal sleep while the brain awakens.
8. Dream Incorporation
Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams.
This means that sometimes in our dreams we hear a sound from reality
and incorporate it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you
are in a concert while your brother is playing a guitar during your
sleep.
9. Men and Women Dream Differently
Men tend to dream more about other men.
Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the
other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and
women. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in
their dreams than the female lot.
10. Precognitive Dreams
Results of several surveys across large
population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have
experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced
déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming
is possible is even higher – ranging from 63% to 98%.
*Precognition, also called future
sight, refers to perception that involves the acquisition of future
information that cannot be deduced from presently available and normally
acquired sense-based information.
11. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.
This fact is repeated all over the
Internet, but I’m a bit suspicious whether it’s really true as I haven’t
found any scientific evidence to support it.
12.You can experience an o r g asm in your dream
You can not only have s e x as pleasurable as in your real life while dreaming,
but also experience an o r g a s m as strong as a real one without
any wet results. The sensations felt while lucid dreaming (touch,
pleasure and etc..) can be as pleasurable and strong (or I believe even
stronger) as the sensations experienced in the real world.
13. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams
Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
14. Blind People also Dream
People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
Well, I hope you had a great time reading these strange facts about our dreams. Now I’m going to my bed to check those facts once again. Good night and sweet dreams!
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