Outstanding Facts and Curiosities about Human Dream

The dream is one of the most captivating human experiences. The dream carries on the paths of the subconscious, revealing symbolically the interesting aspects of our unconscious personality.

Here you have 17 curiosities about human dreams:

1. When sleeping, we dream on average 20-25% of the time. For many, it means more than two hours of sleep per night.
2. Forget 90% of our dreams. In the first 5 minutes of awakening, you forget half of your dream, and in the next few minutes, you usually forget about 90% of the dream content you’ve had.
3. We only dream of what is known to us. It happens that our dreams are populated by unknown people. In fact, their faces we met them. They are the faces of real people that I forgot, but which I met during our lives. We see hundreds and hundreds of figures throughout our lives, so our minds use resources that we do not even know.
4. Not all dreams are in colours. About 12% of people dream black and white.
5. Dreams are a profoundly symbolic language and are the product of the subconscious mind. A symbol can invoke an idea, a feeling, and often has a profound meaning, much deeper than it can express a single word. At the same time, the symbolism of your dreams may leave you in a state of confusion, wondering “what does that dream mean to me”?
6. Researchers have found that Americans are the ones who have the most aggressive dreams, compared to other nationalities.
7. Surprisingly or not, the most common dreams people have sexual connotations. Very common are dreams in which we dream that we are at school, that we are in the fall or that we are being watched.
8. Women and men have dreams that contain sexual connotations in the same proportion, according to a study by the University of Montreal. The author of the study noticed that the dreams in which we do sex are the most common, followed by words or phrases with sexual connotations, kisses, and other fantasies.
9. Odours affect the dreams we have. In a study, the researchers showed that people who smelled shrunken roses had bad dreams, while people who smelled of fresh sausages had beautiful dreams. The researchers concluded that smells have an important effect on the emotions we live in a dream, more than other stimuli because the sense of smell is directly connected to certain parts of the brain that are associated with the dream function.
10. We need to dream in order to strengthen our memory, to solve some internal conflicts and to regulate our general condition.
11. Some drugs affect the central nervous system, causing nightmares. Among these, very harmful are antidepressants, narcotics, and barbiturates.
12. Women have more nightmares than men, have shown more studies. It is still unclear why women remember their dreams more easily than men.
13. If you dreamed that you die in a dream, it does not mean you will die in real life. Those type of dreams is very common.
14. We can not control our dreams, but we can increase our ability to remember dreams more easily. We can even create a log of dreams we have had, dreams we will note as soon as we wake up. With the help of a good psychologist, they can be interpreted, but we too can discover interesting details about our subconscious.
15. People in different cultures dream differently, although, for the most part, they are similar. The culture from which we come out traces some particularities that we live in our dreams.
16. Pregnant women dream more and also tend to remember more their dreams. Researchers say this is due to the hormonal changes that break into their bodies at that time. Also, pregnant women sleep more, therefore they dream more.
17. It is false to think that some people do not dream. Everybody dreams. People dream for at least two hours each night.