Why Do We Dream ? Amusing Facts About Dreams

We all find ourselves being part of a story which looks very subtle, familar but still not very familiar, where we encounter ambiguous people, situations that are unexpected sometimes.

And suddenly, we wake up perplexed realising that it was all a dream, or probably series of dreams which are unremembered. Everyone, at some point of their lives must have wondered why we dream? what are these dreams? etc.

So Dreams are nothing but a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.The answer to this question is as simple as that. The question why we dream has been bothering not just the ordinary people, but also many researchers who have been working for years to get an answer to this question. Researchers came up with many reasons for the dreaming phenomenon but no one is sure about the accurate cause.

-Most of them believe that Dreams are representations of unconscious desires and wishes while some of the researchers say dreams have no purpose or meaning

-dreams are ways to tackle emotional dramas in your life.
-because our brain is more active during sleep than when we are awake, it may be the brain’s way of preparing for possible future threats.

although the cause for occurance of dreams is not definite, researchers have observed out many intersting facts about dreams:

-The longest dream (30–45 minutes) occur in the morning.
-You can have four to seven dreams in one night but You Forget 90% of Your Dreams after 5 minutes of waking up.

-In our dreams we only see faces that we already know, because our mind can not invent faces.
-Animals also have dreams.
-If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.
-Drinking apple juice before going to sleep can cause you to have more vivid dreams.
-Depression can cause you to dream up to 3–4 times more than you normally would.
-Vitamin B-6 before bed may generate dreams with more contents.
-People with higher I.Q.s dream more.
-Men's dreams contain mostly men,women's dreams contain equally men and women.
-Sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder and scarier dreams.
-What goes through our minds just before we fall asleep could affect the content of our dreams.
Blind people who were not born blind see images in their dreams but people who were born blind don’t see anything at all.