Dreams reveal our subconscious, sometimes they can be completely random and they don’t make sense, on average humans tend to have around 3 to 7 dreams a night, we dream around 2 to 3 hours in a whole night and the most interesting thing is that a 90% of the dream is lost the first minute we wake up, also if you have a partner who snores and keeps you up all night, he or she mustn’t be dreaming much, since its impossible to dream while snoring. These are just some facts and statistics about the science of dreaming,
1- There are no strangers in our dreams
The people we see in our dreams are persons who we have met or seen sometime before, but we cant remember, It could be someone who didn’t make an impact in our life but we could’ve seen that face at some point in our life. People who we meet along life become our history of characters that remains in our subconscious and they are used in your dreams.
2- REM sleep disorder
This is the stage of sleep during which dreaming occurs, there is a paralysis of the voluntary muscles and in a bad dream if we wake up it will take a few minutes for our muscles to respond.
3- Symbolism and Emotions
The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Also the negative emotions in dreams are more common than positive ones, every dream is symbolic, even the most random one has a lot of symbolism behind it, symbolism that represent our lives who we feel think, etc.
4- Lucid dreams
They represent an alternate reality, it means you are aware that you are dreaming even though you are still asleep, best part about these dreams, you can actually control them.
5- Erotic dreams
These are common and lead to orgasms in both cases men and women.
-Men get erections during REM sleep, whether or not the man is having an erotic dream
-Women get their genitals engorged and lubricated during an erotic dream.
6- Male and female dreams
-Men: they dream more about strangers, violence, sexual activity, achievement, and outdoor events.
-Women: tend to have slightly longer dreams that feature more characters, women have more nightmares than men also are more likely to dream about their children, family or household activities.
7- Precognitive dreams
These are dreams that give you the sensation of predicting the future, but what they actually do is they express our innermost hopes and fears based on subconscious information that we may or may not be repressing.
8- Violent dreams
These dreams are known for causing people to act out their dreams, sometimes with violent actions like kicks and screams. There have been studies made that show indicate that violent dreams may be an early sign of some brain disorders it also includes Parkinson’s disease and dementia.
