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Facts About Dreams

Here are some compiled facts about dreams:

• You can't snore and dream at the same time. (But really, how would you know?)
• We become temporarily paralyzed in the dream state.
• In "Lucid dreaming" phase, we  can control our dreams. 
• Dreams can cause incorporation.
• Dreams carry deep meanings that only the subconscious mind can understand. 
• Dreams are almost always forgotten, except if a person is woken up at the REM stage. 
• We tend to dream about forbidden things.
• Some people dream only in black and white while about 70% of people dream in colors. 
• Disturbed sleep may lead to psychosis.
• People who are born blind only witness dreams involving smell, sound or touch, while people who go blind after birth are seen to witness regular dreams just like their counterparts with vision. 
• Animals also dream.
• Children have more nightmares than adults. 
• Many great scientists have made discoveries in their dreams and written them down the moment they woke up.
• Violent dreams can be a warning sign.
• Men dream about sex.
• Adults dream off and on, for a total of about an hour and half to three hours every night.

• By the time we die, most of us will have spent a quarter of a century asleep, of which six years or more will have been spent dreaming—and almost all of those dreams are forgotten upon waking.

• The average person has about 1,460 dreams a year. That’s about four per night.
• About 80% of neonatal and newborn sleep time is REM sleep, suggesting a tremendous amount of time dreaming.
• During REM sleep, the flow of blood to the brain increases, as does the brain’s temperature. Additionally, both the penis and the clitoris in women become erect.
• Dreams of losing teeth or having teeth extracted can signify many things, including fears of helplessness or of some sort of loss in one’s life. Women experience more teeth dreams than men.
• Dreams of dirty water may signal that the unconscious mind is telling the dreamer he or she is not healthy.
• Vitamin B complex (B6) and St. John’s Wort have been shown to produce more vivid dreams.
• “Old Hag Syndrome,” or sleep paralysis, occurs in as many as 40% of all people. It happens when a sleeper wakes, recognizes his or her surroundings but is unable to move for as long as a minute. The folklore explanation is that it is caused by a witch, or an old hag, who was coming to get you in your sleep.
• Childhood dreams are shorter than adult dreams and nearly 40% of them are nightmares, which may act as a coping mechanism.
• The brain waves that occur during REM and non-REM sleep are found in mammals, birds, and reptiles, but not in amphibians and fish.