You think you know everything about dreaming? In your dreams!
1. An average human being spends 6 years of his or her life, dreaming. By the time you wake up, you’ve already forgotten a portion of your dream and in 10 mins, an average human has forgotten 90% of the dream.
2. Blind people can dream too! People who weren’t born blind, see images and those who were born blind dream vividly using other senses like touch, smell, sound, etc.
3. You can control the beginning and end of your dream- this is called lucid dreaming!
4. Toddlers don’t start dreaming until they’re 3-4.
5. Everyone dreams! If you think you don’t, you just keep forgetting what you dreamt. The ones who don’t have a psychological disorder.
6. Brain cannot form images on its own. The stranger you saw in your dream, must have been one of those thousand faces you see everyday!
7. Dreams are symbolic- scary, angelic, worrisome all might have meaning behind it!
8. During REM stage of dreaming, the body is paralyzed during dreaming. It might occur during before or after you’ve slept while your brain is fully awakened. It’s still a mystery as to how a person can’t move even after waking up!
9. Dreams which include falling, flying and public humiliation are a result of anxiety in real life.
10. It was found that between 18-38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive (future sight – acquisition of future information) dream and 70% experienced déjà vu. Furthermore, 63-98% people believe that it’s possible to have a precognitive dream.
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