Dreams can tell us a lot about ourselves as well as help us
process the world around us in a different plane.
But there is much more to dreams than just falling asleep
1 Sleep Paralysis
When we enter rapid eye movement sleep, or better known as
the REM stage, our brain releases a chemical in our body so that we are
paralysed to movement. This makes it so we don’t act out our dreams while we’re
asleep.
However, sometimes we wake up while the chemical is still
active in our body and we hallucinate as well as being unable to move, thus
causing the terrifying phenomenon known as sleep paralysis
2 Pleasure in our sleep
It is not uncommon for people to have orgasms while they are
dreaming, especially during vivid dreams.
Given the fact that we can see, feel, and even have the
sensation of touch in our dreams, it’s no surprise that there will be responses
in the body to those sensations.
Sometimes these dreams can result in wet dreams for males
3 Animals dream too
Yep, when you see bingo moving his leg like he’s chasing a
cat or rabbit, he might actually be having the dream his body is responding to.
Studies have shown that animals have similar brain waves to
humans, while thay are in their dream cycles which indicates that your
household pet may be dreaming about you dropping that steak or giving them last
piece of bacon.
4 No strangers Allowed
When we dream about other people, even people we don’t think
we have met, they all have faces that we have seen in our real lives.
Our brains aren’t capable of creating or visualizing a
unique face, but instead it takes inspiration from faces we have seen in our
waking lives.
So that creepy stranger you might see in your dreams is
actually someone you have already met.
5 Men vs women
Men tend to have more aggressive dreams than women.
They tend to dream about other men as well while women tend
to dream equally about both genders.
But interestingly enough, first-born males don’t have as
,many aggressive dreams, and first-born women have more aggressive dreams.
It just goes to show how similar, yet wonderfully different
men and women can be.
6 So many feels
We tend to process our feelings in our dreams, and the most common emotion we experience in
our dream is anxiety.
Insecurities and fears are dominant in our dreams, and take different forms to express itself,
such as the fear of a cheating spouse or the embarrassment of showing up to
work or school naked.
This is probably why some of the most common dreams include
being chased by an unknown assailant and falling.
7 Dreams are plenty
On average, we have about 6-7 dreams per night.
Of course we are seldom able to remember all of them.
In a single year, we can have anywhere between 1,460-2,190
dreams. That’s a lot to process in our dreams, and if we were to remember every
dreams we’ve ever had, we’d be
overwhelmed.
8 Symbolism
What we see in our dreams tend to symbolize something else
that we are trying to process.
This is why numerous vooks have been written trying to
explain certain things we see.
For example, if you see dirty water in your dream, it is
believed that you might have a health issue that your body is trying to
communicate to you.
If you dream that you are pregnant and giving birth, it
might not be as simple as that you’re going to have a baby, but instead, that
you are in the process of creating a new idea.
9 Dream and perception
We tend to dream according to our perception of life.
This can cause certain phenomenon in our dreams where we
might not be able to dream in color, but instead in black and white.
Our perception of life can be intertwine with our dreams and
outside forces can influence the course of our dreams while we sleep.
For example, a noise that might be going off in the room
you’re sleeping in may be interpreted as something else in your dream, but it
will have the same sound.
Think of the buzzer of an alarm clock in real-life and may
be a bird or even an ambulance in your dreams.
10 Forget me not
Dreams are very forgettable.
In fact, within 5 minutes of waking up, we forget over 50%
of our dream.
And 10 minutes after we wake up, we forget our dreams almost
entirely.
So if you want to keep a dream journal, you will want to
keep it right beside your bed so you’re able to write everything down almost
immediately after waking up.
Some studies have
indicated that when we remember a dream in real-life, that is why we have déjà
vu.
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