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Shocking Strange &

Psychological Facts About

Dreams & Sleep

by John David

Has it ever occurred to you, what do our dreams
mean?
Do dreams give us hints about future or
are they just the outcome of our daily routine?
Some dreams tend be so vivid and realistic that
once your eyes open, you feel that all of it
happened right before your eyes. A little while
later you can’t remember anything!
While all of you might be left in a
slumber of wonder, we will shed light on some
unheard and strange facts about dreams and
sleep.
playing a game of hangman, where you show multiple dreams per night of various situations
Here Is The List Of 40 Strange symbols and reenactment to provide a picture and intensities, but most often only the most
Psychological Facts About Dreams and for the word you want the people to guess. deeply connected are remembered that to very
Sleep. faintly.
34. Dreams Give a Sense of Déjà Vu
You must have said to yourself “Hey I’ve 27. Faces Around You Matter
40. We Don’t Need Eyes
seen this somewhere” “I’ve been here before” You are prone to seeing the faces you
Most people think that blind people can’t
that is called precognitive dreaming. Even have seen in your lifetime. Even though those
dream, or as clearly as regular sighted people. In
though you are in the present, your dream has faces can account to be in thousands, your dream
fact people with blindness dream as vividly as
given you a faint impression of what might turn is what relates something about that person with
regular people, their dreams are enhanced
out to be – a piece from the future. Which, once your subject of the dream.
through other sensory perceptions of touch and
the time comes, is very relatable.
greater depth of the dream itself. It is one of the
26. Dreams Are Universal
common unknown dream facts.
33. You Don’t Need to be Asleep to Dream If you thought only humans dream then
You heard me right, you don’t have to be that’s not entirely correct. As research has
39. Controlling Your Dreams
asleep to dream, in fact it’s quite easy to do. Not shown that from dogs, to chimpanzees and many
Little did you know, people in fact can
to be mistaken for daydreaming, this type of other mammal species dream just like humans
control their dreams, it’s called lucid dreaming.
dreaming is called active dreaming. All it do and equally as vivid.
Despite the person becoming aware of their
requires is an active imagination and persistent A random mood swing in your pet’s
dreaming, he or she continues to dream by
focus on the subject to delve into it entirely. behavior can account for an odd dream the
focusing on the dream and not letting the mind
completely awaken. animal might have dreamt the night before.
32. Dreams are Prone to be Negative
You might have noticed, most of the 25. Sensory Incorporation
38. Dreams Speak Through Subconscious
dreams that you do encounter during sleep tend This is one of the weirdest facts about
This is a solid one in Psychology facts,
to follow negative emotions. Namely, anxiety, dreams, but easily relatable. The human body
you might have felt similar dreams reoccurring
anger, sadness and fear. You are less likely to makes sure it is not influenced by any sorts of
repeatedly. That might be an undone task or
find positive dreams. external sensory stimuli that affects its own
feeling in the mind that needs to performed or
sensory inputs or discomfort.
accomplished in reality. These sort of dreams act
31. Dreams Are Short Lived Your body can wake up from a dream, if
as a reminder for the job to be done. So once you
know this is happening, recall your life and You must know this better, you just can’t it hasn’t quenched its stimulation of thirst or
seem to remember the specifics of your dream wanting to make a pee in the bathroom. It’s
asses what needs to be done.
most of the time. According to study about 60% basically not possible to be in peace without the
percentage of all dreams are forgotten after 5 fulfillment of that task.
37. Dreams Spark Inventions
minutes post waking up.
It was thought the best ideas are thought
24. Loud Snoring
off on the toilet seat, but history has to prove that
30. Toddlers Are Bad Directors According to recent studies, it has been
dreams play a vital role in sparking ideas for
Toddlers up till the age of four cannot revealed that people who snore, are not
great inventions to be born.
include themselves in their own dreams, and necessarily dreaming at that particular period of
don’t find themselves coming naturally either. time. Though this is not scientifically proven.
36. Color Televisions Color Dreams
Toddlers are not self-aware about themselves
Since the arrival of color television, the
that is because of their less development of the 23. Gender Differences
average person dreaming in color has greatly
brain since birth in order to dream more intense Men and women dream differently,
increased, whereas earlier it was black and white
and deep. unlike women who tend to dream more pleasant
for 12% of dreamers.
and peaceful subjects, men dream more
29. Women Experience Orgasms aggressively with violence and socially complex
35. Dreams Are Symbolic
Did you think only men go through this subjects. Men tend to dream about other men
In a list of psychological facts this aspect
phenomenon. Actually, No. Women are prone to 70% of the time, whereas women dream about
of dreams plays a vital role. Dreams don’t
always tend to be easy to understand, neither are feeling strong sexual simulations during their men and women equally.
sleep, most often associated with an erotic
they instantly clear to remember.
dream, it’s common to find the genitals of 22. Six Years
They are however cleverly symbolic,
women to be lubricated. Six years is the period of an average
during our lives our dreams relate different
human beings life spent dreaming.
things to provide a message, with elements that
28. You Dream More Than Once
are brain can quickly process. For example
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