Last night I was watching the movie Inception. Most of you
must have seen it and know that it is about dreams. In this movie a team of
young people dream at will and share the same dream with each other at the same
time - interesting isn’t it. During the Roman Era dreams were thought to
be messages from the gods and even submitted to the Roman Senate for
analysis and dream interpretation. Dream interpreters used to accompany
military leaders into battles and campaigns!
Here is a list of interesting facts about dreams:
We forget most of of our dreams after we wake up and those
dreams which we remember can be with missing content. We forget half our dream
within 5 minutes of waking and 90% of the content is gone within 10
minutes.
9. Everybody Dreams:
Nobody is exempted from dreaming. No exceptions, if you
think you don’t dream then its a case of poor memory and you entirely forget
your dreams.
8. Blind People Dream Too:
Those people who become blind after birth can see images in
their dreams. Those people who are blind by birth do not see any images,
however they dream equally vivid involving their other senses of
sound, smell, touch and emotion.
7. Animals Also Dream:
Research has been done on animals’ sleep using electroencephalography
to study electrical brain activity and it has shown similar waves as in human
sleep during dreams. If you observe a sleeping dog it moves its paws and
makes other similar movements and produces sounds as if dreaming.
6. Colored Dreams Are Not For Everybody:
Research done from 1915 to 50′s showed that 12% of sighted
people dream exclusively in black and white while remaining number dream
in full color. Recent research has shown that today only 4.4% of the dreams of
under-25 year-olds are in black and white. This changing trend has been
attributed to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.
5. Dreams Have Symbolic Interpretation:
Dreams are usually symbolic and whatever subjects, objects
or events you see in your dream cannot be interpreted according to their
literal meanings. Instead dreams can only be interpreted in a deeply
symbolic language.
4. Emotions During Dreams:
One can experience a variety of emotions during a dream
including happiness, joy, excitement, anger, fear etc. But the most common
emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety and negative emotions are more common
than positive ones.
3. Number And Duration Of Dreams In A Night’s Sleep:
On the average a human being can dream from one to hours in
total during a night’s sleep and sees four to seven dreams during this period.
2. Paralysis During Dream:
The body is paralyzed during REM sleep by a mechanism in the
brain to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the
physical body to move.
(Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep
characterized by rapid movements of the eyes and constitutes 20-25%
of total sleep, which is about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.)
1. Incorporation Of External Stimuli:
Our mind interprets the external stimuli that
bombard our senses 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 make it a part of our dream.
Bonus:
After above mentioned 10 facts about dreams I thought I
should give a bonus interesting fact dreams:
People Can Even Experience An Orgasm During Their Dreams:
While dreaming you can not only have sex as pleasurable as
in your real life, but also experience an orgasm as strong as
a real one. The sensations felt while lucid dreaming (touch, pleasure etc.) can
be as pleasurable and strong (may be even stronger) as the sensations
experienced in the real world.
Source : http://researchonmedical.com
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