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Fun Facts About Dreams

  Studies suggest that it is not possible to snore and dream at the same time.

 

Even blind people dream. People who are blind by birth cannot see images in their dreams, but their dreams are governed by sense of smell, sound and obviously, emotion. People who go blind after birth can still see images in their dreams.

 

  The longest dreams—up to 45 minutes long—usually occur in the morning.

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A lot of people claim that they don’t dream. But that’s untrue. Everybody dreams. But, 60 percent people forget their dreams completely.

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   Our brains are more active when we’re asleep. So, your brain is constantly working even when you’re dreaming.

 

Negative dreams are more common than positive ones. Most people dream about emotions like anger, fear, sadness or anxiety!

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    Animals also dream.

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All the faces you see in your dreams are faces you’ve seen before, consciously or subconsciously.

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    The average person forgets 90 percent of the dreams they see.

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A lot of people have multiple dreams in a single night – about 4 to 7.

 

   It is said you cannot read in dreams. So, the next time you’re wondering whether you’re dreaming or not, try to make yourself read something and you’ll know! You cannot even read time from a clock or watch in your dream.

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    With practice, it is possible to control your dreams. It is called lucid dreaming. It lets you steer your dream whichever way you like. You can fly, pass through walls and do what you want!   

 

    Premonition dreams is a phenomenon where things happen in real life exactly as you already saw them in a dream earlier. Now, there can be no surety as to whether it is just a coincidence or the dream was actually a glimpse into the future, but there have been some astounding examples that hint at the latter. Abraham Lincoln was said to have dreamt of his assassination.

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   An external stimulus can affect your dream. You might just dream of a concert if there’s music playing around you while you’re dreaming.

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You usually remember only those dreams that you wake up in the middle of. Our brain starts erasing the dreams from our memories automatically once they’ve ended.

 

Dreams are said to boost your creativity. Some of the most notable inventions in the world have been conceived while dreaming. Elias Howe invented the sewing machine, Tesla invented the alternating current generator, James Watson discovered DNA’s double helix spiral form and Dimitri Mendeleyev coined the Periodic table inspired by what they saw in their dreams.

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The Old English word dream, which etymologists believe is the origin of our word dream, meant "joy," "mirth," or "music."


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