What
is a dream? A dream is a series of images, ideas, emotions, and
sensations occurring in voluntarily in the mind during the different
stages of sleep. Throughout time dreams have been quite a curious topic
and people even have their dreams interpreted or keep dream diaries.
They are mysterious, eye-opening and sometimes even downright
frightening. Here are 10 facts about dreams that you may have never
heard about!
That's
right every single human being, male or female, adult or baby, dreams.
So those that claim that they don't ever have dreams are either lying or
they just don't remember their dreams. A person can have multiple
dreams in a single night, each ranging from 5 to 20 min. In fact, during
a typical life time, a person spends 6 hours of his life just dreaming!
Men
and women are not similar at all, not even while they're asleep!
Studies show that gender differences occur in dreams also, such as the
agression levels found in the dreams of men is much higher than the
dreams of women. Also women have longer dreams which include an array of
characters, both male and female, whereas men have shorter dreams and
mostly have male characters in them.
Its
hard to say for sure if animals dream or not, but researchers believe
that animals do have dreams, but may not be as complex as a human's
dream. So the next time you see your pet wag his tail or move his legs,
you can be sure he's in Dreamland!
Imagine
having a dream which you can't see. It's like a movie playing without
the visuals. That's how blind people dream. Despite the lack of visuals,
the dreams of blind people are still as vivid and complex as the dreams
of sighted people, but in the place of the visual sensations, there is a
heavy concentration on the other senses such as sound,taste,touch and
smell!
When
you are able to control your dream, its called lucid dreaming. In lucid
dreaming, the person is fully aware of the fact that he is dreaming and
is able to control the events and situations that take place in his
dream. The phrase 'living the dream' really takes on a whole new
meaning!
Many
of the greatest inventions the world has ever seen have not come up due
to endless hours of head scratching and researching, but through a
regular dream! Many inventors said that their dreams were the birthplace
for their ideas. Some examples are: Google which was invented by Larry
Page and the Periodic Table which was invented by Dimitri Mendeleve.
There
have been many instances in which people have had dreams about certain
events, which actually happened in real life after some time in the
exact manner! These dreams are called premonition dreams. Now, have
they predicted the future or is it just a coincidence? Whatever it may
be, its pretty cool! Some of the most famous premonition dreams have
been Abraham Lincoln predicting his own assasination.
In
our dreams, the characters in it can never be someone that we haven't
ever seen. The thing is, our brain cannot create a face of of a person
on its own, so the people that we see in our dreams are only people we
know or the faces of people that we might have seen in a crowd or
somewhere!
In
our dreams we come across various emotions such as happiness, sadness,
anxiety etc. But research has proven that the emotion people feel the
most in their dreams is that of a negative kind such as anxiety, worry,
stress, melancholy etc.
There
are some people that love to dream so much that they take a drug which
is illegal and prevents them from waking up. The hallucinogenic drug is
called Dimethyltryptamine, which is a synthetic form of the chemical
that our brains produce while sleeping, causing dreams.
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