About Dreams

Dream facts

• An average human spends about 6 years of his life dreaming.

• Body is paralyzed during the REM stage of your sleep, that’s the reason why you cannot move physically during the dream.

• 70% of dream characters in men’s dreams are men, while women dream equally about men and women.

• Brain is more active during sleep than during the day.

• During REM sleep, the flow of blood to the brain increases and the temperature of brain as well.

• Pregnant women tend to remember more about the dreams that other people, it is because of the extreme hormonal changes during pregnancy.

• Alcohol has an impact on sleep and dreaming. It slows the activity of the cortex, causing the person to sink into a deep slow wave sleep rather than experiencing REM sleep.

• The less one sleeps, the more dreams they are going to have when you do sleep.

• Spicy foods may help in you remembering more dreams and nightmareIn just 5 minutes you are up from sleep most of the dream is forgotten and in 10 minutes, 90% of the dream is forgotten.