18 Facts About Dreams
 

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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 more than 2,100 days spent in a different world.

3. Dreams have been here as long as mankind. Back in the Roman Era, striking and significant dreams were submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.

4. Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because you do not remember your dream does not mean that you did not dream.

5. Dreams are indispensable. A lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.

6. We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night.

7. Blind people do dream. Whether visual images will appear in their dream depends on whether they where blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses.

8. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.

9. The word dream stems from the Middle English word, dreme which means "joy" and "music".

10. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.

11. Studies have shown that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.

12. Dreamers who are awakened right after REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than those who slept through the night until morning.

13. Physiologically speaking, researchers found that during dreaming REM sleep, males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow - no matter what the content of the dream. In fact, "wet dreams" may not necessarily coincide with overtly sexual dream content.

14. People who are giving up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

15. Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until the age of 3 or 4.

16. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

17. Nightmares are common in children, typically beginning at around age 3 and occurring up to age 7-8.

18. In a poll, 67% of Americans have experienced Deja Vu in their dreams, occurring more often in females than males.

Fuckin' a.
I wish I could lucid dream... I've been trying/practising for a couple months... haha

i've never had a single nightmare in my life.

i dream about shopping.

I can hardly remember my dreams, unfortunately.

8. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.

I can read. :p

Usually though, what I can remember is either violence or sex.

Lucid dreaming is sweet. There's entire books that help you train to lucid dream.

One of the methods I know is the 'reality check' method. If you get used to checking if it is reality (biting lip, taking deep breaths, thinking "am I in a dream") etc... and do it about once an hour, you will start to do it in dreaming, and cause lucid dreams much more often. And write them down when you wake up! How do you do your practicing?

I see, I usually what I can remember is people I know dying.

i just dreamt i had a soapy water fight with the staff from mc donalds in the driive thru lane

Supposedly if a Native American dreamed that he owned another man's property he would tell the owner what he dreamed about and then the owner would have to give away his property.

Or if a person dreamed about another person killing someone then the "killer" would be reported to the authorities so he/she could be punished.

Bizarr-O

It'd be pretty easy to get ahead in Native America.

everyone needs to see the richard linklater film Waking Life

19. Jedi cannot dream

I have not had a nightmare in a really long time

BTW, Science of Sleep is an awesome movies. The dream sequences remind me of my own dreams, although the ones in the movie are much more vivid.

Oops, let me correct that.

19. Jedi rarely dream

that fact about toddlers was really interesting.

i remember too much of my dreams.

Them crazy lucid dreams are awesome, have you ever realised your dreaming in a dream, most weird thing ever. Usually it's sparked by such a strange event, like being able to fly around.

Ive always lucid dreamed. I realise I'm in a dream so I can do what I want and can change anything in the dream that i want. its a lot of fun. I can also continue dreams. Wake up. go back to bed and decide to return to the dream.

The thing about toddlers was interesting because often my dreams are like films. Situations observered from a third person angle. Often I never appear in my own dreams.

Hey! That happens to me a lot. My dreams are like movies. Also, I remember quite a lot about them. Sometimes I've written stories stemming from the dreams I had.

Kewlness! That was interesitng.

My dreams usually just fuck with me.

I had a dream that I cut my hair yesterday.

I never used to have traditional nightmares about ghosts and witches when i was younger either. My dreams I would feed the ghosts, cook them a nice meal. I was a strange kid.

i am one of those rare few that very rarely remembers any dreams. I recall dreaming about once every 40 nights of sleep. For me, sleep comes very quickly (ussually under 45 seconds) and, from my perspective, I wake up insatntly, but with 6-8 hours havuing elapsed. i have no sense of time in my sleep. I literally wake up as soon as I fall asleep 99% of the time, although, like I said, I have been sleeping for hours and hours.
the dreams I very arrely remember are ussually deeply horrific, tortured, terrifying brutality, and rampaging carnage to all I love. The most twisted nightmares conceiovable, but these I can remember clearly and for years afterwards.


dreams Are meaningless. Nothing I hate more in the world that sitting whiel someone tells me their dreams seeking some sort of meaning. There is none. whatever meanintg you derive from them you are dong so strictly with your waking mind assigning "meaning" from your conscious experience. This in no way applies to your subconscious dreaming.

freud was a hack.

Rob ive looked at a great deal of the studies concerning dreaming. There are people like you that say dreams are just randoming firings of brain activity that have no meaning at all. However there is considerable evidence to suggest that dreams serve other important purposes.

Some psychologists point to the fact that often dreams help us solve problems. I for example used to have a terrible fear of lifts (or elevators) until I had one dream when I was about 7 and from that point on I loved going in lifts. Scientists often say that problems they have been working on solve themselves in dreams.

Freud's Wish Fulfillment is obviously the most famous of all dream theories. But as with everything with Freud there are some ideas that are nuts, absolutely insane and some ideas that are brilliant. Although I like many psychologists nowadays am extremely sceptical about his ideas on dream symbolism, the idea that we indulge in ideas and emotions whist dreaming that would be too disturbing in waking life is not that far feached an idea.

Well isn't waking up at the last moment of a death dream equivalent of dying? Because when you die you do lose consciousness.

I had a dream I was shot, and in the end I blacked out on the pavement. Who's to say if I was dead?

20. If you dream about whiteness and space, it means that you cosmic soul takes the form of an albatrosss. That or a shopping bag.

The probable reason why one wakes up just before dying may be that we have no idea how it's like to be dead.
Maybe you have more imagination than most and associated dying with losing consciousness.

Never underestimate the power of the shopping bag.

hmm , how can we know this to be true ?

i have just the same thing. mostly my friends. it's rather disturbing to know that everyone i like for a bit has already died in one of my dreams.

I got shot a bunch in a dream once and I was bleeding (which was rare for my "getting shot" dreams"). After bleeding and looking up at my brother, I got woozy and pasted out. I remember wondering if I was dying or just passing out at the time. Like "is this death?" then I was out/awake.

I usually have very terrifying dreams (mutilated dog corpses talking to me, etc.) or absolutely bizarre dreams (being chased by Darkseid's goons from Super Friends).

Dreams, they're okay.
Quite over-rated.

People rate dreams? I always saw dreams like a force of nature. Like "taking a piss is overrated".

Any thing can be over-rated.
If you try hard enough.

Can overrating things be overrated?

I realize I'm in a dream we the girl was in love with when I was a teenager, comes and says that she loves me too and wants to have sex, NOW !!! At this point, I think it's not possible, it's a dream, and I wake up. And when I fall asleep, I look for her but I can't find this girl... I had this dream a million times. She was so cute.
That's horrible.

has no one fucking seen waking life?

I've seen it. I hated it. But I'm a philosophy major, so it felt partonizing.

i was annoyed by the tour of philosophy bit at the start but then it got more interesting when became more about dreams and whatnot.

I didn't like the dream stuff either. Hip psycho babble, like a less dumbed down version of 'Matrix' philosophy. Life could all be a dream! Wow, you really blew my mind there, Waking Life... :rolleyes:

Unfortunately, deconstructive perception theory is old hat to anyone that has read Decartes far too many times for comfort.