Dreams are fascinating, but to this day no one has been able to explain why we see them. Let’s see some interesting facts about our dreams.
Data: www.healthline.com
You see longer dreams during the morning hours. So if you woke up thinking you just had a dream, there is a possibility that you might have!
Most of your muscles go into paralysis during rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep (during which we see most of our realistic dreams) to protect us from acting out in sleep.
Eating late in the night, close to when you sleep, can make your brain more active and increases the chances of having nightmares or disturbing dreams.
Visually impaired people can see images in their dreams, as they are often influenced by our memory. People who turn blind later in life see visual dreams more often than the ones who were born blind.
We forget almost all of our dreams as dreams are mainly stored in short-term memory. We tend to pay more attention to real life as soon as we wake up, making dreams disappear from our memory quickly.
Most people dream every night, seeing four to six dreams on average! However, dreams can be easily forgotten if one doesn’t wake up in between or right after the dream.
It is more common to have negative dreams than positive ones, especially when one is stressed during the day. Our negative thoughts influence our dreams as well.
There are theories on how to control your dreams, like writing down everything as soon as you wake up, sleeping in intervals and preparing your brain to have a dream before you sleep by chanting or thinking the same thing repeatedly.
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