These Surprising Facts About Dreams Will Make You Want To Crawl Back Into Bed & Visit Dreamland

Ask any person and they'd tell you how much they love sleeping. An integral part of the sleeping experience is dreaming. They can be good or bad. They can make you happy but they also have the power to make you feel anxious. There are some dreams that we are never able to forget but then there are also dreams we don't even remember having! Till date, dreams are an enigma even to the scientific world and yet, the little that is known of the phenomenon is surprising.

We digged up these 11 facts about dreams that will surprise you:

1. You do dream every night but within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. And within ten minutes of waking up, 90% is gone.

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2. Every human being dreams and if you don¡¯t, it could actually be a case of extreme psychological disorder.

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3. You never meet a complete stranger in your dream. Our mind doesn¡¯t inventing faces. We see faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not remember.

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4. You can actually control your dreams. It is called the "Lucid dreaming" where you¡¯re aware you¡¯re dreaming. You want things to go your way in the middle of a bad dream? You can very well give yourself a victorious ending.

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5. Toddlers don't see themselves in their own dreams till they are about 3-4 years old.

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6. If a person grew up watching black and white television, he or she is more likely to dream in black and white.

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7. On an average, you can dream for about one to two hours every night and you can have four to seven different dreams in one night. That¡¯s a lot of dreams to realize once you wake up!

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8. You can¡¯t read while dreaming, or tell the time.

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9. Men and women dream differently. Men are more likely to have violent and aggressive dreams and they dream more about other men. In fact, about 70% of the dream characters in a man's dream are men. On the other hand, women dream about women and men equally.

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10. Our brains are more active during sleep than during the day. And here you thought sleeping meant resting.

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11. Our animal companions dream as well. Watch a dog or a cat sleep and you can see that they are moving their paws and making noises like they were chasing something.

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