18 Facts About Dreams

shampainwishes:

1. Our brains create dreams through random electrical activity. About every 90 minutes, the brain stem sends electrical impulses and the analytic portion of the brain tries to make sense of these signals. 

2. Some dreams are meaningful as they give us insight into ourselves. Dreams help us connect to our unconscious mind and make sense of our wishes and fears. Dreams help us  make sense of our past, present and future by getting us in tune with our emotions. 

3.  Even though we can dream at any time of our sleep, we are most likely to dream during REM sleep. 

4. We can sometimes control our dream through what is called ‘lucid dreaming.’ Some people can train themselves to do this such as keeping a journal of their dreams and mind training. 

5. Some researchers believe that lucid dream helps us cope with grief and developing creativity. 

6. Despite our attractive it may be to develop lucid dreaming, it can cause sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is when you are awake, but your body is still not able to move. Sleep paralysis is sometimes developed from trying to lucid dream, because we teetering on the edge between wakefulness and dreaming. 

7. Lucid dreaming is not the same as out of body experience (OBE). In lucid dreaming, one is dreaming and is aware that one is in a dream. But in OBE, the person may not necessarily be dreaming. Furthermore, OBE is when you are outside your body and you can see your body lying somewhere (lucid dreaming isn’t about being outside your body). 

8. As mention earlier, most of our dreams occur during deep sleep. This is often during the REM stage of sleep, where our brain most resemble wakefulness. 

9. During our dreams, information from the day are being transferred from short to long term memory. 

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