100 Facts About Dreams

 "Facts About Dreams"

Dreams we all have them some dream of achieving superstardom, whereas some simply dream. Below are the 100 facts about dreams.

#1. The dictionary definition of a dream is a series of thoughts images and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.

#2. In Old English the word dream meant noisy merriment or music, which means in Old English it made perfect sense for people to tell their neighbors to turn their king dreams down, Because it's four o'clock in the fing morning sorry I'm going through some stuff.

#3. Having dreams are like having an affection for Lionel Richie every single person on planet, earth does just some may not be aware of it.

#4. While the timer on death's door, the average person has spent a quarter of a century of sleep six of those years will be in dreams, which is like watching inception twenty one thousand and twenty four times I counted.

#5. Plato suggests that dreams originate from the liver he was of course very wrong about that but hey he tried.

#6. French philosopher and literal egghead Michel Foucault wait how'd you what you mean that's not Hey Oh Foucault claims that dreams of the origin of the human soul.

#7. You have several dreams and night which progress in length as your slumber goes on apparently, they can vary from being five minutes long to an hour and a half.

#8. You can't ordinarily snore while dreaming because you dream in the REM stage no not them the rapid eye movement stage when your muscles are more relaxed.

#9. Speaking of REM not them damn it can cause brain waves similar to when you're awake.

#10. Because of dreaming your brain is more active at nighttime, than it is during the day. So if people berate you for sleeping instead of going to the gym you can tell them you're doing some mental athletics instead then, laugh about how much cleverer you are than them the fools.

#11. Insects and fish don't experience REM and so our sky by swear to God sorry insects and fish don't experience REM, and so don't dream but mammals such as cats and dogs do.

#12. You can't read or tell the time during dreams, so if you're a tad late in dreamland that's why.

#13. There's a drug called oh geez when I start with this and dimethyl chew dimethyl danmath Oh got it dimethyltryptamine, there's a drug called diameter tryptamine that gives me with the sensation of dreaming while they're awake, it's a synthetic form of the chemical our brains make during dreaming it is illegal though. So you won't find it in any drugstore sorry maybe around the back.

#14. There have been instances in history in which people have dreamt what was going to happen to them, in the future including Abraham Lincoln who dreamt of his own death just days before his assassination he must have had a rainbow shining over him, as some philosophers say that is when dreams come true.

#15. Rather eerily Mikey Welsh the former bassist of the band Weezer tweeted that he dreamt, he would die of a heart attack while in Chicago a couple of weeks later he was in Chicago and did die from a heart attack.

#16. Reuben Naman a clinical psychologist from the university of Arizona, says that dreams never seemed strange until we're awake. So you could be for example riding a giant squirrel through the gates of Mordor and you wouldn't think this was weird until you woke up presumably to tell people what a great dream you just had.

#17. Apparently you can't remember 95 to 99% of your dreams because your brain isn't paying enough attention to record the memories, so you've probably had that squirrel in Mordor dream and just not remember and if that's case I pity you.

#18. The best way to remember them is to not be jolted awake by the siren like noise of an alarm clock but rather groggily lie there and gather your thoughts. According to Naman though you have to be careful in his words if you chase dreams they will run away just like every single child run away from you during kiss chase at school okay maybe not the last bit.

#19. Contrary to what some people on the internet say it is possible to die in a dream and live to tell the tale in real life.

#20. Blind people do dream and with pictures - but only if they lost their sight after the age of 7, their dreams are made up of heighted other senses such as smell hearing and the ability to see dead people oh sorry no that last one.

#21. Animals appear more frequently in the dreams of kids than they do in the dreams of adults.

#22. Do you ever wonder why you still feel angry at Aunt Gertrude for taking your boyfriend even though that was just a dream, well experiences we have in dream is biologically register in the exact same way as they would in real life, so emotions such as anger can still reside for a while afterwards.

#23. This is also why you sometimes have involuntary muscle reactions according to what's going on in the dream.

#24. Men dream of men more than women dream of men while US males are vainer aren't we.

#25. Chronic smokers claim that their dreams are more vivid, once they've stopped smoking in fact nicotine patches are said to intensify dreams, even more as well so X smokers most people now bring it to sleep.

#26. According to a study carried out by those boffins at the British cheese board, cheese can have a wild effect on your dreams cheddar can make you dream if celebs red Leicester can make you revisit your school days. And Stilton can make eaters have incredibly intense dreams so if you want to explore the realms of consciousness put down the LSD have an on some Stilton and slap, a nicotine patch on yourself and go crazy ride the dragon man.

#27. Gamers watch out you could be the victim of the Tetris effect no it's not when you feel like a block that doesn't fit in anywhere like, I do at any gym but it's actually when you play a video game for so long it starts to influence your dreams. 

#28. Some people dream in just black and white, it's even more likely that you do so if you grew up watching a black-and-white telly.

#29. It's been proposed that the reason that dreams are so bat poop weird is because the limbic part of the brain. The sensible controlling part is under active leaving the rest of its parts to run wildly like at the last day of term.

#30. A lot of famous creations have come from dreams one of these was the riff from the grammatically incorrect track, I can't get no satisfaction by the Rolling Stones guitarist and living whiskey barrel Keith Richards dreamt, the riff and recorded himself playing it in his sleep he then woke up the next day with absolutely no recollection of it but had a lovely song under his belt.

#31. Paul McCartney had a similar experience with his song yesterday as in the song yesterday, this didn't happen yesterday happened quite a long time ago doesn't matter point is McCartney composed the entire song in one of his dreams.

#32. Mary Shelley the writer of Frankenstein says the thought came to her after she had a nightmare.

#33. Robert Louis Stevenson dreamt a lot about his book, The Strange Case of dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde often writing down sequences that had come to him in his sleep, in fact he was screaming in his opium tinted sleep while dreaming about one of the sequences and then complained that he was woken up because he was enjoying it, so much can't please some people can you.

#34. For better or for worse you'd be naked or in a sack right now if it wasn't for a lay as how inventor of the sewing machine, but the invention came to him in a dream in which he was being attacked by cannibal savages, he saw their spears and mimicked their designs for the needle I thank you imaginary cannibal savages.

#35. The arrangement of Dmitri Mendeleev periodic table you know that set of squares that plagued your high school chemistry classes came to him originally in a dream.

#36. Stephanie Meyer the author of the twinkly vampire angst athon that is the Twilight series said the origin of the books was a dream in which a human girl spoke to a shiny vampire boy in a field, that sound familiar Twihards.

#37. Nightmare merchant Stephen King dreamt of a woman taking a rider hostage before killing him skinning him and bounding his novel in human skin ill, this was the seed of an idea for the book misery that later turned into a film.

#38. Dr. James Watson first considered DNA to be shaped as a double helix Arthur dream involving two serpents intertwining to be fair, this could have just been a vision saying he would have been sorted into Slithering.

#39. Google CEO Larry Page got the idea of Google after a dream he had in which he downloaded the entire Internet onto some old computers, he then stayed up for two hours in the middle of the night doing the math as you Americans call it and discovered it was actually possible.

#40. Now it's time to get scary with some nightmares first off they're not always scary. Oh No ruin that intro didn't it as long as the dream provides you with a strong negative emotion such as stress or sadness it's considered to be a nightmare.

#41. The word nightmare comes from the Anglo-Saxon word mare meaning demon, so nightmare literally translates as a night demon which surprisingly isn't the name of an 80s vampire detective movie but really should be.

#42. If you're a night owl as in a person who stays up late such as little Timmy here, and you know not an actual out you're more likely to have nightmares look at him he's probably dreaming of that ridiculous lamp eating him or something.

#43. Nightmares are most common in children specifically aged between 7 & 8, 40% of children's dreams and nightmares and are used as a coping mechanism. However only two to eight percent of adults are affected by nightmares weekly.

#44. Women have more nightmares on average than men do.

#45. Nightmares have been known to reflect the stresses going on in the dreamers, life for instance those worried about being exposed have nightmares about going into work naked which all holy I have.

#46. Nightmares can also relate to physical aspects as well such as eating before bedtime or not getting enough air while you're sleeping.

#47. Some researchers say that nightmares are actually good for you because they purge or release negative emotions in a safe way, so next time you see that fictitious boogeyman in your head give them a nice cuddle.

#48. The most common nightmares varies from study to study but they include falling being chased and physical harm sounds like a night out at my hometown.

#49. The blind have up to four times more nightmares than those who were cited.

#50. Dr. William Dom Hoff is trying to create a dream Bank an online database of anonymously submitted nightmares and dreams hey speaking of dreams.

#51. Apparently Dr. Martin Luther King had one once.

#52. It's entirely possible to wake up from a dream while still dreaming, so in fact you're dreaming in a dream this is called a false awakening.

#53. Ancient Hebrews believed that dreams were prophetic messages from God.

#54. A West African group known as the Ashanti take dreams so seriously, that a man is allowed to take legal action against another man if that man is having a sexy dream about the other guy's wife.

#55. Greek philosopher Aristotle said that humans are only able to reach their purest form of wisdom through dreams, as it's when their minds are liberated, I do hope you're writing down all these excuses for napping that I'm giving you.

#56. In the Chinese province of Fukin people would try to get revelations in their dreams by sleeping on the graves of their ancestors, had they brought a sleeping bag that must be uncomfortable.

#57. During the dark ages dreams were thought of as souls traveling through the night they could have just been confused because, I'm guessing it was always a nighttime in the Dark Ages because it's called the dark ages.

#58. In the Bible it was said that Jesus is dad not the big guy in the sky Joseph, the other one was gifted at interpreting dreams.

#59. Medicinal brainbox Hippocrates allegedly used to ask his patients about their dreams and looked for clues about their diagnosis from there.

#60. Psychoanalyst and mother lover Sigmund Freud claimed that dreams were repressed wish fulfillment served fresh from the subconscious.

#61. He came up with this after he was worried about a patient of his and had a dream about her in which he discovered. The illness was not his fault from there Freud assumed that every single other human being in the world was just like him and started practicing dream analysis.

#62. People still look for meaning and symbolism in their dreams using dream dictionaries, supposedly for instance dreams about teeth are said to be about things from self-confidence to aggression.

#63. Apparently dreaming of hash browns means you are feeling good about the start of a new project, well either that where you just love hash browns in which case welcome to the club.

#64. Dreaming about pajamas apparently means you yearn for more rest which you already seem to be doing, because you're asleep and dreaming so well done you I guess.

#65. Seeing a hammer in your dream seems to relate to your masculinity, which explains why my dreams are populated with them, so often because I'm such a manly man.

#66. If you dream of a sex tape of yourself leaking then it means you feel too exposed well, either that or you've been watching too many really bad Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel movies.

#67. If you dream of a puppet it apparently means you don't feel like you have control in your life just think of poor Kermit.

#68. Having saliva appear in your dreamers you know gross but it also is said to represent your sexual appetite.

#69. Both men and women can achieve orgasm while dreaming even if it isn't about naughty stuff. Don't worry it's normal you won't start thinking of staplers are sexy if you have a dream set in your office except maybe that one.

#70. Men are Seltzer stand to attention 20 times per dream God John Thomas must be exhausted.

#71. It's possible to control your dreams using a technique known as lucid dreaming.

#72. Lucid dreaming is defined as a dream in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming and they can influence the course of the dream. Dream doesn't sound like a word anymore does it dream,,,,,,,,,

#73. The person that's asleep reaches a certain level of consciousness within the dream and can suddenly do pretty much anything from flying in the sky to marrying Jennifer Lawrence one day one day.

#74. A study by Snyder and gakuen vac found that 20% of people can lucid dream frequently whereas 50% of people say they have at least once in their lifetime.

#75. You're more likely to be able to do this if you play video games.

#76. Sorry to bring this up but orgasms that appear in lucid dreams actually happen to the person in real life, so don't try lucid dreaming at sleepover or things get bit awkward.

#77. The key to lucid dreaming is using reality checks in real life asking yourself am I dreaming in reality will lead you to do so in your dreams, as well when you ask in your dreams you will excitedly answer, yes I am dreaming and then turn into Spider-Man probably.

#78. Keeping a dream journal also helps just don't confuse it with your actual journal otherwise, you'll be very confused when you come to write your autobiography.

#79. Tibetan Buddhist monks have been using meditation and lucid dreaming for hundreds of years on their journey to enlightenment.

#80. I had a dream last night that you clicked on the subscription button right here maybe it was a premonition what do you think it's right there.

#81. Your brain can have been absolute dick sometimes and pull a horrible trick on you called sleep paralysis.

#82. This can happen just as you fall asleep or just before you wake up.

#83. Patients say that sleep paralysis feels like they have woken up dead they can't move because their mind is awake but their body isn't.

#84. A horrifyingly common aspect of sleep paralysis is hallucinating there is some kind of demon or witch or something in the room with you, slowly moving towards you because you'll paralyze there is nothing you can do to stop this.

#85. Medically speaking sleep paralysis is a completely normal thing and it happens to everybody at least once in their lives nice to know we've got that to look forward to.

#86. Sleep paralysis has been used as an explanation for everything from UFO encounters to demonic possession.

#87. If you've ever been in a classroom or sat through a Transformers movie you'll know it's possible to dream while you're awake as well.

#88. Daydreaming happens when your brain fires off nerve impulses, while it's relatively idle which explains why you mostly get them when you're bored out of your skull.

#89. Daydreaming triggers your creative and problem-solving brain networks, at the same time quite often making you think about your own future in an abstract way.

#90. The older you get the less you daydream so get bored while you can well not right now obviously please don't be bored now.

#91. A study from the University of California concluded that you've become far more creative, if you stopped a daydream for a bit before attempting a task don't do it for everything though especially, if you're a firefighter or something.

#92. Another experiment this time from the University of Aberdeen stated that if you're moving forwards while daydreaming you'll be thinking of the future. But if you're travelling backwards perhaps in a Michael Jackson moonwalk style way you'll be thinking of the past.

#93. It's been proposed that the phases that we see in our dreams are actually phases that have been pulled from the deepest corners of our memory, so we've seen them all before so that woman who pushed you off a cliff last week could be a friend of auntie Gertrude's that you just can't remember.

#94. Some sounds such as music or an alarm clock can infiltrate the dream and become a part of it this is called dream incorporation.

#95. Dreams are actually very important and prevent conditions such as psychosis and though it may be a controversial opinion, I say the less psychotic people out there the better.

#96. Little itty-bitty fetuses can dream too beside to say that it's mostly made up of sounds, as they can't see anything at least it's something for them to do must be boring in there there's not even a PlayStation in the womb or anything.

#97. Speaking of which in 1998 a PlayStation video game called LSD dream emulator was released in Japan. The only goal in the game is to explore the weird and unsettling randomized areas that throws you in with no story at all so it replicates the nonlinear nature of dreams thanks now I'm having nightmares.

#98. There's an initiative in the States called a call in the night in which subscribers are called by other anonymous subscribers between the hours of 2:00 to 5:00 a.m. specifically to discuss their dreams count me right out of that one thank you contrary to popular belief I need my beauty sleep.

#99. Men's dreams are more likely to be set outside than women's dreams just thought you'd like to know.

#100. The most common dreaming experiences of being late, being naked and being at school often at the same time for me it's not so much a dream as a flashback.