Dream Facts – 37 Interesting Facts About Dreams

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Dream facts: 37 Interesting facts about dreams. Dream is a magical world where everything one wishes comes true, however, a study finds that most dreams are about anger, sadness, and fear. There are many unknown facts about dreams which everyone should be aware off because people dream their entire sleep. Let’s explore more facts about dreams.

Dream Facts

An average human spends about 6 years of his life dreaming.

Body is paralyzed during the REM stage of your sleep, that’s the reason why you cannot move physically during the dream.

70% of dream characters in men’s dreams are men, while women dream equally about men and women.

Brain is more active during sleep than during the day.

During REM sleep, the flow of blood to the brain increases and the temperature of brain as well.

Pregnant women tend to remember more about the dreams that other people, it is because of the extreme hormonal changes during pregnancy.

Alcohol has an impact on sleep and dreaming. It slows the activity of the cortex, causing the person to sink into a deep slow wave sleep rather than experiencing REM sleep.

The less one sleeps, the more dreams they are going to have when you do sleep.

Spicy foods may help in you remembering more dreams and nightmares.

In just 5 minutes you are up from sleep most of the dream is forgotten and in 10 minutes, 90% of the dream is forgotten.