15 less known things about dreams

1. On average, a human being spends about six years of living dreaming (which means about two hours a night).
2. From the age of 10 we have, on average, four to six dreams every night. Which means between 1,460 and 2,190 dreams every year.
3. Five minutes after we wake up we forget half of what I dreamed. And after ten minutes we forget about 90% of what we dreamed. In other words: we dream every time. Just that sometimes we do not remember that I dreamed.
4. Not everyone dreams in colors: 12% of people dream only in black and white (and obviously the rest dream in color). According to a 2008 study, most people who dream black and white are elderly people. Which may have to do with the fact that they got black and white television.
5. Children do not dream about them until they are 3 years old. At the same time, from the age of 3 to the age of 7 to 8, children have more nightmares than adults.
6. Blinders also dream: if a person has lost sight of his life, he will continue to dream like all other people; If born without sight, does not dream of images, but his dreams are based on sounds, smells, feelings of touch and emotion.
7. Men and women dream differently: while 70% of the characters that appear in a man's dreams are all men, women tend to dream men and women in almost equal proportions. In addition, men's dreams contain more aggressiveness.
8. Women dream about sex as much as men. With the difference that while men tend to dream of sex scenes with multiple partners (and 90% of them seem to dream that women are the ones who initiate hot scenes), women tend to dream more of the sexual scenes involving the partner Life or celebrities. At least this is the conclusion of a 2007 study. True, in 2009, another study brought some additions: while men tend to dream sexual acts themselves, women dream more kisses and gentle moments.
9. According to several studies, between 18% and 30% of people had at least one premonitory dream, and the percentage of those who believe in this type of dreams is between 63% and 98% (!) Of the people.
, 10. People who sleep less than 6 hours a night or sleep more than 9 hours* had a death rate of up to 30% higher than those who usually sleep 7 to 8 hours.
11. When you are dreaming, your body is "paralyzed". Specifically, after the first 90 minutes of sleep, it enters rapid sleep phase (REM phase) when the release of certain neurotransmitters is completely suppressed. As a result, motor neurons are not stimulated, a condition known as nervous relaxation. This relaxation suppresses uncontrolled movements of the body during sleep.
12. We only dream of the people I've seen. Even if dreams are often populated with people who seem unknown to us, they are actually people we have seen on occasions during waking hours but whose faces we do not remember.
13. The idea of ​​the Google search engine came to Larry Page while he dreamed. The same happened with the periodic table of elements (which appeared to Mendeleev first in the dream), as well as the AC generator (dreamed by Tesla) and the DNA spiral (dreamed by James Watson) and the sewing machine (Dreamed by Elias Howe). And with many other inventions. And that's not to say that the so-famous story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde was first dreamed of Robert Louis Stevenson.
14. It is not yet known what part of the brain generates dreams, if there is only one region in the brain that generates them, if more regions are involved or what is really the purpose of dreams.
15. Animals also dream: it is something that anyone who has a dog or cat at home knows. For others, we will be pleased to say that more studies conducted on different animals have shown that during sleep, brain waves are similar to those of dreamers.