25 amazing facts about dreams

Dreaming is an integral part of sleep. And the fact that they are still not well-studied is a very surprising fact. But science is developing, and every day the world opens more and more interesting. So, what could you not know about dreams?

1. Psychological studies have shown that people who saw monochrome TVs in their childhood, as a rule, see black and white dreams.

2. Most people see from 4 to 6 dreams per night, but almost none of what they see is not memorized. According to statistics, we forget 95 - 99% of dreams.

3. Occasionally people see in their dreams the events that should happen in the future. Someone prophetic dream predicted the collapse of the Titanic, someone saw the tragedy of September 11. Is it a coincidence or a contact with supernatural forces? The answer is difficult to find even specialists.

4. Some people can watch their dreams from outside and even control them. This phenomenon is commonly called a conscious dream.

5. Members of the American Psychological Association are confident that inspiration can illuminate people's dreams. It happens infrequently, but sometimes in a dream there really come hints that help to solve this or that problem.

6. When we fall asleep, our brain does not turn off. On the contrary, in some moments he begins to work even more actively than during the waking period. Sleep is divided into two phases and is "fast" and "slow". Increased activity is observed in the REM-phase ("fast").

7. Dreams can occur in different phases. Nightmares are often seen during a "fast" sleep, when the brain works much more actively.

8. Science knows cases in which people saw dreams in dreams, which they subsequently embodied into reality. So there were alternators, a double helix of DNA, a sewing machine, a periodic table of Mendeleev, a guillotine.

9. Blind people also dream. Dreams of the blind from birth are distinguished by an increased level of sensory perception. In them, the world appears about the way people could see it in reality, if everything was in order with their eyes. Blinded at the same time conscious of ordinary dreams.

10. Scientists also found that blind people see nightmares more often sighted (25% of cases versus 7%).

11. In the final stages of "fast" sleep, men often experience an erection. More recently, scientists came to the conclusion that this phenomenon is not always caused by erotic dreams, but the true reason for finding it still could not.

12. As practice shows, negative dreams - those in which people experience any unpleasant emotions and feelings - are often found positive.

13. Although most dreams are negative, the very word "dream" has a positive emotional color.

14. The dreams of men and women are different. Male dreams are usually more violent and there are fewer characters in them. Representatives of the stronger sex see each other in dreams twice as often as women, while the ladies have different-sex heroes.

15. Five minutes after its completion, we forget 50% of the dream, in 10 minutes - 90%.

16. It is believed that the chemical dimethyltryptamine helps to cause dreams. Because "dependent" on dreams people sometimes take DMT, even during a day's sleep.

17. Experts argue that even the worst dreams - death, monsters, illnesses - are not really a bad omen. In most cases, they simply warn about coming changes or precede any emotional moments.

18. Scientists are convinced that animals also see dreams. And considering that animals, reptiles and, probably, even fish also have a "fast" phase of sleep, this may well be true.

19. There can be many characters in dreams, but the face of each of them is real. The brain does not invent the heroes, but takes them from different parts of the memory. Even if you do not recognize someone, know: the image is real - you saw this person in life and, most likely, just forgot it.

20. Children under 4 do not see themselves in dreams, because before this age they simply do not realize themselves.

21. Sleepwalking is a very real problem, which can be potentially dangerous. It arises because of the violation of the phase of "fast" sleep.

Sleepwalkers are awake, but do not understand this. One cook, for example, cooks in a dream. Science also knows a young man - a nurse - who, in an unconscious state, creates works of art. But there are terrible examples. Somehow, a guy suffering from sleepwalking, overcame a whole 16 km before his relative and killed him.

22. That a person does not walk in a dream, his muscles become paralyzed during the "fast" sleep phase.

As a rule, sleep paralysis passes after awakening. However, sometimes the condition persists for some time after returning to reality. The attack usually lasts no longer than a few seconds, but it may seem like an eternity to the victim.

23. People start to dream, while still in the womb. The first dreams appear somewhere on the 7th month and are based on sounds, sensations.

24. The most popular location where all the main events in people's dreams occur are their own home.

25. Each person has his own unique dreams. But there are also universal events, which are dreamed to almost everyone. Among them: an attack, a persecution, a fall, an inability to move, a public exposure.