Dreams result from a process that often combines fragments of various life experiences and anticipates future events. Sometimes they’re happy, sometimes sad, sometimes bizarre, and you get a sexy dream once in a while if you’re lucky.
While you are trying to interpret what your dreams last night meant, here are the facts about the incredible dream activity that you experience each night:
Having multiple Dreams each night, but you won’t always remember them
While you may not recollect a large portion of them, you have multiple dreams every night. Most people fail to remember 90–95 percent of their Dreams.
REM is the sweet spot
Our most vivid dreams happen during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which happens in short episodes throughout the night about 90 to 120 minutes apart.
Bad dreams are nothing to fear
No one likes a bad dream, but they do serve a purpose: research suggests that they prepare us to better face our fears. The key brain regions that are active when someone is feeling fear are the same whether they are awake or dreaming.
You can control your Dreams
During a so-called lucid dream, the dreamer realizes that they are dreaming and can control what happens. There has been no end of attempts to find ways to induce lucid dreams — mostly unsuccessfully.
Some people’s daydreams take over their lives
People with daydreams are so vivid and absorbing that “real life” fades into the background.
You can learn while you dream
While you dream, your brain is busy honing problem-solving skills and learning. If you are perfecting a new skill or studying new information, then a good sleep, complete with dreams, can help you learn more quickly.
The People you see in your dreams are probably those you already know or have seen before.
While it is very difficult to prove scientifically, there have been studies showing that the areas of the brain most active during REM sleep are also responsible for facial recognition.
Your mind is more active while you are dreaming than when you’re awake.
Even though your body is resting while you sleep, your mind is more active than when you’re awake. During dreams, your mind is learning, solving problems, and also filing, sorting, and making sense of all the information you absorbed in your waking hours.
Kids have more nightmares
Nightmares usually begin between the ages of 3 and 6 and decrease after the age of 10.
Having Sleep paralysis in Dream
Sleep paralysis is due to a disturbed rapid eye movement cycle. It mostly happens as people are falling into or coming out of REM sleep. During sleep paralysis, the sleeper is awake or half-awake, and they cannot move.
Dreams recharge your creativity.
Sleep recharges your body, and dreams recharge your creativity. As the brain problem solves during dreams it mimics the creative, waking thought process. For this reason, many artists are more likely to be stimulated by their dreams and think with more creativity while awake.
Blind people experience more sensory dreams.
People born blind experience dreams, but not through the sense of sight. Instead, they have dreams that are reliant on the other senses, and their dreams are still as intense as those with sight. Those who become blind later in life will experience visual images in their dreams.
Animals also have dreams.
Humans are not the only species that dream. Many animals also experience heightened brain activity and dream while they sleep.
Your mind is more active while you are dreaming than when you’re awake.
Even though your body is resting while you sleep, your mind is more active than when you’re awake. During dreams, your mind is learning, solving problems, and also filing, sorting, and making sense of all the information you absorbed in your waking hours.
Dreams are the way your brain collects and clears useless day information to make room for the next day’s new information.
Dreams are believed to represent unconscious desires, the fulfilment of desires, and personal conflicts in this theory.
So, what’s your Dream?
