5 Facts About Dreams
July 28, 2010 Random OMG Facts
Precognitive Dreams
Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced deja vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher ranging from 63% to 98%.
Precognitive dreams are type of dreams, in which the dreamer experiences an event, in whole or in part, before it occurs; Precognitive dreams are sometimes equated with prophetic dreams and with dream divination.
Body Paralysis
Body Paralysis or sleep Paralysis is a sleep related hereditary disorder in which after awakening from dream, one experiences very frightening seconds or minutes of total body paralysis with little respiration and eye movements; the common symptoms include feeling choked or suffocated, hearing strange noises like footsteps and voices, seeing beings or dark shadows, and feeling an existence of someone in the room.
Several scientific studies have concluded that many or most people experience sleep paralysis at least once or twice in their lives; common causes of sleep paralysis are Sleeping in a face upwards or supine position ,Irregular sleeping schedules; naps, Sudden environmental/lifestyle changes and a excessive consumption of alcohol coupled with lack of adequate sleep.
Animals Dream Too
Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.
According to researchers, Animals have complex dreams and are able to retain and recall long sequences of events while they are asleep.
Not Everybody Dreams in Color
12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white, the remaining people dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.
Blind People also Dream
People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
if their blindness began at birth, or in early childhood, they dream without visual images. Instead, their dreams are full of sounds, emotional sensations and the sense of touch. In sleep, blind people show little or no rapid eye movement. The longer they’ve been blind, the fewer the movements.