Dream Facts

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.