Some Interesting Facts About Dream

1. You are paralyzed while you sleep: Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams.

2. External Stimuli Invade our Dreams: This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream.

3. Quitters have more vivid dreams: People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience.

4. Dreams are not about what they are about: If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar.


5. Not Everyone Dreams in Color: A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident.

6. We Only Dream of What We Know: Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember?

7. Dreams Prevent Psychosis: In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep the student’s brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage.

8. Everybody Dreams: Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions.

9. You Forget 90% of your Dreams: Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

10. Blind People Dream: People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.

11. When you are snoring, you are not dreaming.

12. Toddlers do not dream about themselves until around the age of 3. From the same age, children typically have many more nightmares than adults do until age 7 or 8.

13. If you are awakened out of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, you are more likely to remember your dream in a more vivid way than you would if you woke from a full night sleep.