During sleep the involuntarily occurrence of successive emotions, ideas, images and sensations in the mind are know as Dreams. Dreams occur during a stage know as the REM (Rapid Eye Movement)
stage of sleep. The absolute activity of the brain is high during this
stage of sleep and is approximately equal to that of being awake.
Sometimes dreams may also occur during other stages of sleep but these
dreams are rather vivid or harder to remember.
20 things you dint know about dreams:-
We forget 90% of the dream the moment we wake up.
- We don't see new faces in our dreams, we see only those that we already know; they are no strangers.
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Men have reported to have more instances of dreams with aggression than women do.
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Women dream longer and featuring more characters.
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Men dream as twice as more about other men than about women, whereas women dream about other men and women equally.
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Hormonal changes during pregnancy increases both the number of dreams and the ability to recall them.
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Children dream as much as adults do, but those who watched TV in black and white are more likely to dream in monochrome.
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One doesn't need to be asleep to dream.
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If you are snoring while sleeping, it is impossible to dream.
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Those disturbing or scary dreams called as nightmares, are nothing but your fears that translate into a dramatic context.
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Not only people with eyes, even the blind can dream.
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Even animals can dream.
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When we dream our body is paralyzed.
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Some people have abnormal REM sleeping that leads to movement or jumping out while dreaming.
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People suffering with personality disorders are unable to dream.
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We have the ability to change and control the dream in ourselves, it is known as lucid dreaming.
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On an average every person has about 1460 to 2190 dreams a year.
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One can have an average of 4 to 7 dreams for about 2 to 3 hours a single night.
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We nearly spend around 6 years of our lifetime just dreaming.
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And we end up sleeping around 1/3rd of our lives.
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