Top 10 Most Amazing Dream Facts

10. Blind People Dream




9. You Forget 90% of your Dreams




8. Everybody Dreams




7. Dreams Prevent Psychosis





6. We Only Dream of What We Know




5. Not Everyone Dreams in Color




4. Dreams are not about what they are about




3. Quitters have more vivid dreams





2. External Stimuli Invade our Dreams




1. You are paralyzed while you sleep


Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. According to the Wikipedia article on dreaming, “Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.”

Bonus: Extra Facts


1. When you are snoring, you are not dreaming.

2. Toddlers do not dream about themselves until around the age of 3. From the same age, children typically have many more nightmares than adults do until age 7 or 8.


3. If you are awakened out of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, you are more likely to remember your dream in a more vivid way than you would if you woke from a full night sleep.

source:http://listverse.com/2007/11/14/top-10-amazing-facts-about-dreams/

Interesting read!

Haha good to know.

6. We Only Dream of What We Know

Actually this can't be true because the periodic table and the tuba was invented from a dream