10 Important & Interesting Facts About Dreams

Dreams are perhaps the most amazing & mysterious experiences of all living creatures but specially the humans. In the old days, Romans were known to use their dreams for analysis & future forecasts. The important dreams were submitted to the Senate and then researchers & Roman monks used to analyze those dreams for interpretation. Romans believe that the dreams are actually the messages from their Gods. Dreams also led to many famous battles which were only based on the interpretation. In spite of all this, many people used their dreams in different manners. For example, many known artists took inspiration from their dreams & created their master-pieces. Below we are presenting a list of 10 important, amazing, somehow weird & interesting facts about dreams. We hope you will like the information & will share with your friends. Enjoy!

1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams:

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

2. 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.

3. Everybody Dreams:

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think, you are not dreaming, you just forget your dreams.

4. 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.

5. 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-old 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.

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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Emotions:

The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.