20 facts about your dreams - nightmares, fun dreams

We all have them, some are better than others and most are better off forgotten. No not ex-girlfriend /boyfriend we are talking about DREAMS.
Here are 20 interesting facts about the dreams you have every night.

20. In the dictionary the meaning of dreams is ''a series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep''

19. Till the death a average person spends a quarter of century  asleep and six of those year will be in dream. Its like watching inception 21,024 times.

18. You can't ordinarily snore while dreaming. Thats because you dream in REM (rapid eye movement) stage when your muscles are more relaxed.

17. Because of dreaming your brain is more active at night time than it is during the day.

16. Insects and fishes don't experience REM so they don't dream but mammals such as dogs do.

15. You can't read or tell the time during dreams.

14. there have been instances in history in which people have dreamt what was going to happen to them in the future. This includes abraham Lincoln who dreamt his own death just days before his assassination.

13. You can't remember 95% to 99% of your dreams because your brain isn't paying attention to recall the memories.

12. Men dream of men more than women dream of men.

11. When you play a video games for long it starts to influence your dreams.

10. The arrangement of dmitri mendeleev perodic table came to him originally in a dream.

9. Google SEO larry page got the idea of google after a dream in which he downloaded the whole internet in some old computers.

8. A dream which provide you strong and negative emotions such as sadness is called a nightmare. "Mare" means demon.

7. Women have more nightmares than the men do.

6. It's entirely possible to wake up from a dream while you are still dreaming. So, in fact you are dreaming in a dream. This is called false awakening.

 5. It's possible to control your dreams by a method called lucid dreaming.

4. Lucid dreaming is defined as a dream in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming and can influence the course of the dream.



  3. animals appear more frequently in the dreams of children then in adults also children have more nightmares then the adults.

2. Blind people also have dreams and with pictures too but only if they lost there eyesight after the age of 7. There dreams are made up of heighted other senses such as smell and hearing.

1. "Dreamt" is the only word in English which ends with 'mt'.


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