Facts-About-Dreams

Facts About Dreams

FACTS ABOUT DREAMS 

An interesting fact about dreams that you may like to know.

Everyone  of us dreams every single night!

Dreams & dreaming fascinate all of us. This is partly because we all dream – and most of us remember a few of our dreams and partly because dreams are so vivid yet so mysterious and memorable that they must mean something.

A dream is a series of images occurring involuntarily during sleep. It is a pictorial statement of what is going on in dreamer’s life. It is different from a daydream which is more like a fantasy or reverie while awake.

Aspects of Dreaming 

Here are some interesting aspects on the subject:

  1. Dreaming is common to almost all human sleep patterns in the REM stage. The REM period occurs about every 90 minutes and lasts 10 minutes just after the onset of sleep and about 45 minutes to 60 minutes in the period just before awakening.
  2. Those who do not remember their dreams in the morning dream as much as those who remember their ones.
  3. Dreaming is biologically important & acts as an innate repair mechanism available to us.
  4. In a normal life span of seventy years an individual spends at least 50,000 hours dreaming, i.e. 2000 days or six full years of dream time.
  5. Our dreams reflect our waking concerns in doing so they shed light on aspects of our past that emotionally connect to these concerns and reflect back to us truths about ourselves that elude us while awake.
  6. Dreams function as guardians of our sleep and are critical to mental health.
  7. They seem strange from the waking point of view, because during sleep the mind expresses itself in pictures. We do not draw pictures of our ideas when awake: we use words.
  8. If we are taught to understand the meaning of pictures as we are taught to understand the meaning of words, then dreams would not appear so strange.
  9. They change, integrate & symbolize elements from various areas of life.
  10. Figures of people & fragments of events come from everyday life or emerge from long forgotten experiences. Feelings, thoughts, emotions & memories are connected in kaleidoscope of images
  11.  Dreams speak in a language of  symbols that  contain seeds of information not accessible in the waking state.