Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Facts About Dreams - strangefacts

  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year 
  • Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes
  • Japanese researchers have successfully developed a technology that can put thoughts on a screen and may soon be able to screen people's dreams
  • What you smell when asleep has power to influence dreams,says research presented at the '08 American Academy of Otolaryngology
  • People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound)
  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
  • Everyone dreams. Just because you don’t remember your dreams doesn’t mean you don’t dream. Everyone dreams
  • Most people dream about 1-2 hours a night and have an average of 4-7 dreams each night
  • Five minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten. Ten minutes after a dream, over 90% is forgotten. Write down your dreams immediately if you want to remember them  
  • While you sleep, your body produces a hormone that may prevent you from acting out your dreams, leaving you virtually paralyzed
  • Dreams almost never represent what they actually are. The unconscious mind strives to make connections with concepts you will understand, so dreams are largely symbolic representations