Here are some facts about dreaming:
- You spend around 1/3 of your life sleeping.
- You would have spent around six years dreaming in a regular lifetime, that means more than 2,000 days in dreamland.
- Dreams have been written about since the Roman Era.
- People that are healthy have dreams but some do not believe this because they cannot remember them.
- People that do not dream might have a protein deficiency or even a personality disorder.
- People can dream up to seven dreams a night.
- An average person can dream up to two hours each night.
- People that are blind dream, the images that they have will depend on what their life was like from birth. Most blind people will dream about smells and sounds.
- After a dream ends, more than half of the dream is forgotten after five minutes. 90% of the dream is lost after 10 minutes.
- Dream comes from a Middle English word which means music and joy.
- Women dream about men and women equally while men will dream more about men.
- Research has shown that when women have REM dreams that they will have increased vaginal flow regardless of what the dream is about.
- People that give up smoking or other bad habits have more vivid dreams.
- People that dream will not show up in their own dreams until they are three or four years of age.
- Toddlers do not dream about themselves.
- When you snore, you are not dreaming at that time.
- Children from three years old to almost eight years old have nightmares.
- More than 60% of Americans have Déjà vu happen in their dreams.
- Most people dream about their own houses.
- More than 3% of adults have sleep apnea and this can cause them to be tired because of lack of REM sleep.
- It is normal for men to have erections during REM sleep no matter what they are dreaming.
- Nightmare is from a female spirit that bothers people at night while they are sleeping.
- Negative emotions happen more than twice as much as positive emotions in dreams and fear and stress are the most felt emotion in dreams followed by anger and sadness.
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The fact that people who give up bad habits tend to have more vivid dreams is quite intriguing. It makes me wonder about the connection between changes in our lifestyle and how they impact our subconscious mind.
The historical aspect of dreams, being written about since the Roman Era, highlights how integral they have been to human experiences and cultures for centuries.
It’s fascinating that blind people dream about smells and sounds. It speaks volumes about how adaptable the human brain is in creating dreamscapes from different sensory inputs.
It’s quite revealing that toddlers do not dream about themselves and that people don’t appear in their own dreams until age three or four. This might provide insights into the development of self-awareness in young children.
The correlation between protein deficiency and lack of dreaming sounds like an interesting area for further research, particularly regarding how nutrition can affect our mental health and dream patterns.