14 Interesting Psychological Facts About Dreams
14 Interesting Psychological Facts About Dreams
14 interesting psychological facts about dreams people dream about 6 years during their lives on average imagine 6 years spent absorption wondrous frightening thrilling and sometimes completely incomprehensible sensations your dreams if you could record them all.what certainly prove just what a creative being you really are why between what we do might appear to be totally mystifying but in fact the disciplines of dream and sleep science have actually discovered quite a lot about dreams this post will give you some deep insight into dreams you will discover a lot of information that will truly astonish you let's get started
1) Your mind is more active during a dream than when you're awake during sleep the mind and body relax after all the primary reason why we sleep is to recover from the day's stress on the body to repair muscle damage and to freshen up for the next day's demands yet as paradoxical as it may seem your mind is a bus of activity while you're asleep even more so than when you're awake sleep studies where brains electrical activity is measured provide solid data documenting brain activity but why is the brain so active when you're asleep well you experience a lot during a typical day when you're awake your brain is so busy taking in everything you see hear and feel that it has little time to actually process categorize and store all this information when you're asleep your brain finally has time to make some sense of it all there is also evidence that your brain becomes even more stimulated when it has to deal with a brand new experience or with some major change you experience regardless of whether that change was good or bad
2) It all happens in your subconscious your conscious mind relaxes when you're asleep but your subconscious never really sleeps when you sleep your subconscious is where all that Dreaming takes place you see your subconscious mind is busy processing your thoughts and concerns this processing generates dreams dreams speak the language of the subconscious mind and this language is composed of images metaphors and other symbols that your conscious mind usually has a hard time grasping this is why most people have trouble making sense of their dreams but you can be sure that your dreams don't just come out of nowhere they come right from your own personal experiences
3) Your dreams only see familiar faces what all those weird events in my dreams I know all those people that's right your subconscious can't invent new faces that only make sense because your subconscious only remembers things so any face that appears in your dreams is a face you have already encountered this does not however mean that you actually know the person just think about it your eyes see and take in things that your conscious mind doesn't really pay attention to just think of all the people you pass by during the day maybe faces in a crowd you glanced at it you may not recognize any of those faces but your subconscious toward them all most of the main actors in your dreams are however people you would recognize simply because they occupy your thoughts more but sometimes your dreams can concoct a strange mix of familiar and unfamiliar people for instance a friend of yours might appear in one of your dreams his face and personality might seem to match up with reality yet upon waking you might realize that a person with a different face actually played the role of that friend.
4) You can't read in your dreams you are typically engaged in a lot of activity in your dreams but one thing you aren't doing is reading yes books and signs might pop up but you aren't reading any of them because you won't make out any words or letters this is because reading is a conscious activity remember your brain is the product of a long period of evolution however humans have been reading only for about five thousand years your subconscious is not equipped for this when you are asleep your conscious mind is taking a break you can't even read a clock in your dreams and it gets weirder you can't see yourself in a mirror if you look into one in your dreams the image will be blurred or resolved into another person.
5) Sensory incorporation it may seem strange but it actually should make some sense in order for you to dream your body needs to be relaxed if your body is disturbed by some external sensations such as noise or internal sensation such as bladder pressure your subconscious will be affected by this anything like that will bring you out of a dream state in order to get back to it your subconscious has to be completely undisturbed so you need to shut off the noise or go to the washroom before your mind will be able to start dreaming again.
6) Men and women dream differently researchers have discovered that women and men dream differently and they dream about different things several studies have documented that men dream about things like for example weapons far more often than women do women on the other hand dream a lot more about things involving clothes furthermore men's dreams contain a lot more aggression and physical activity while women's dreams more often have to do with emotional themes such as exclusion or rejection in addition a lot more conversations are being held in women's dreams than in men's women's dreams are also a bit longer and involve more people than men's dreams what might seem somewhat surprising is that in men's dreams men appear twice as often as women women's dreams for some reason are more balanced men and women appear roughly as often.
7) 50% of Dreams are negative according to research negative emotions emerge in many of your dreams your dreams are in a sense fair about this all about half of them are positive but half are also negative negative dreams tend to involve emotions such as anger fear insecurity and sadness.
8) dreams can be a sign of anxiety or underlying stress our dreams show that humans everywhere seem to have a lot in common no matter where we are born or where we grow up our dreams often involve being chased attacked or falling other common themes are feelings of being frozen or and mobilized or arriving late sometimes we even dream about appearing naked before others while the meanings of such dreams can defer depending on a person's particular circumstances these dreams can often be connected to feelings of anxiety or stress if you experience unpleasant dreams try to pay more attention to taking care of yourself also try to deal with circumstances that are causing you stress.
9) Premonition dreams there are some really astounding instances in which people have foreseen things in their dreams that would happen to them these dreams often turned out to be surprisingly accurate were these dreams a glass into the future or were they just a matter of circumstance well some pretty strange cases of premonition are recorded in history for example many of the 911 victims dreamed about the coming terror attack mark twain dreamed about his brother's death Abraham Lincoln dreamed that he would be assassinated the verified dreams of 19 people foresaw the sinking of the Titanic.
10) dreaming in black and white your dreams might be very vivid and colorful a lot of people have such dreams yet some people say that their dreams are black and white why studies have established that age and the media one is exposed to might play a role in what colors occur in people's dreams for example older people grew up with black-and-white television and photography many of them have monochromatic dreams it's the way they picture people and events external to themselves younger people on the other hand have no nothing but color photography and television.
11) Dreams recharge your creativity okay so dreams might contain some subconscious messages but what use can they really be well dreams can help you in various aspects of your life everyday researchers suggest the dreams are especially helpful in developing your creative capabilities artists often remark on how useful their dreams are in their creative processes but dreams can help anyone by providing creativity toward solving everyday problems just as you use your waking imagination at the point when you are attempting to be imaginative dreams do definitely this while you are snoozing while you rest your psyche is managing and working out issues the cycle is entirely like the innovative cycle you use when wakeful at the end of the day the inventive cycle proceeds with when you're sleeping and your fantasies really help improve your innovativeness as you might know dreams can even legitimately furnish you with motivation suppose for instance that you've quite recently envisioned something truly stunning or you encountered something testing or you remembered some enthusiastic occasion these sorts of dreams can help interface with you to solid emotions and hence assist you with being more imaginative.
12) Dreams have changed history so you now know the dream served to refresh and support the creative process history shows that many dreams directly led to ideas that change the world for example Larry Page came up with his idea for Google dmitri mendeleev came up with a periodic table of elements Elias Howe was inspired to invent the sewing machine James Watson envisioned the DNA double helix Tesla got the idea for an alternating current generator 13)It's possible to control your dreams have you ever had a dream while you were sleeping and we're aware that you were dreaming at the time that kind of dream is referred to as a lucid dream it is thought that lucid dreaming arises from a state that combines both consciousness and REM sleep while you are in such a state you can often control the contents of your dreams about 50% of people remember having a lucid dream at least once in their lives and some people have lucid dreams over and over again 14) You always dream you just don't always remember yes always even if you don't remember a single dream most people have several dreams each time they sleep these dreams can concern any number of scenarios and differ in intensity yet many people just don't remember them once they wake up over half about 60% in fact don't remember anything of their dreams after five minutes of waking up after just 10 minutes most people forget about 90% of the details from their dreams so what you're a member of your dreams is only a small fraction of what you actually dreamed but there is an exception if you happen to wake up suddenly while you are in the REM face of sleep you are often able to remember quite a lot of your dreams content of course dreams can also stick with you if you have a particular dream repeatedly or if they contain some very strong emotions if you want to remember more of your dreams keep a notepad by your bedside as soon as you wake up write down anything you can recall once you've recorded your dreams you can refer to your notes and see whether any themes are recurring you can even try to identify any messages your subconscious may be communicating to you so there you have it pretty interesting don't you think these dream facts may just be the tip of a very large iceberg psychologists and neuroscientists are still conducting research into the purpose of dreaming and the meanings of Dreams many are convinced that there is still a lot to learn share your thoughts and comments below and tell us about some of your most interesting dreams if you remember any. Thanks
Hello everybody, welcome back. I'm bikash and I am back with another topic. Today, we are going to know some interesting psychological facts about Dreams.
14 interesting psychological facts about dreams people dream about 6 years during their lives on average imagine 6 years spent absorption wondrous frightening thrilling and sometimes completely incomprehensible sensations your dreams if you could record them all.what certainly prove just what a creative being you really are why between what we do might appear to be totally mystifying but in fact the disciplines of dream and sleep science have actually discovered quite a lot about dreams this post will give you some deep insight into dreams you will discover a lot of information that will truly astonish you let's get started
1) Your mind is more active during a dream than when you're awake during sleep the mind and body relax after all the primary reason why we sleep is to recover from the day's stress on the body to repair muscle damage and to freshen up for the next day's demands yet as paradoxical as it may seem your mind is a bus of activity while you're asleep even more so than when you're awake sleep studies where brains electrical activity is measured provide solid data documenting brain activity but why is the brain so active when you're asleep well you experience a lot during a typical day when you're awake your brain is so busy taking in everything you see hear and feel that it has little time to actually process categorize and store all this information when you're asleep your brain finally has time to make some sense of it all there is also evidence that your brain becomes even more stimulated when it has to deal with a brand new experience or with some major change you experience regardless of whether that change was good or bad
2) It all happens in your subconscious your conscious mind relaxes when you're asleep but your subconscious never really sleeps when you sleep your subconscious is where all that Dreaming takes place you see your subconscious mind is busy processing your thoughts and concerns this processing generates dreams dreams speak the language of the subconscious mind and this language is composed of images metaphors and other symbols that your conscious mind usually has a hard time grasping this is why most people have trouble making sense of their dreams but you can be sure that your dreams don't just come out of nowhere they come right from your own personal experiences
3) Your dreams only see familiar faces what all those weird events in my dreams I know all those people that's right your subconscious can't invent new faces that only make sense because your subconscious only remembers things so any face that appears in your dreams is a face you have already encountered this does not however mean that you actually know the person just think about it your eyes see and take in things that your conscious mind doesn't really pay attention to just think of all the people you pass by during the day maybe faces in a crowd you glanced at it you may not recognize any of those faces but your subconscious toward them all most of the main actors in your dreams are however people you would recognize simply because they occupy your thoughts more but sometimes your dreams can concoct a strange mix of familiar and unfamiliar people for instance a friend of yours might appear in one of your dreams his face and personality might seem to match up with reality yet upon waking you might realize that a person with a different face actually played the role of that friend.
4) You can't read in your dreams you are typically engaged in a lot of activity in your dreams but one thing you aren't doing is reading yes books and signs might pop up but you aren't reading any of them because you won't make out any words or letters this is because reading is a conscious activity remember your brain is the product of a long period of evolution however humans have been reading only for about five thousand years your subconscious is not equipped for this when you are asleep your conscious mind is taking a break you can't even read a clock in your dreams and it gets weirder you can't see yourself in a mirror if you look into one in your dreams the image will be blurred or resolved into another person.
5) Sensory incorporation it may seem strange but it actually should make some sense in order for you to dream your body needs to be relaxed if your body is disturbed by some external sensations such as noise or internal sensation such as bladder pressure your subconscious will be affected by this anything like that will bring you out of a dream state in order to get back to it your subconscious has to be completely undisturbed so you need to shut off the noise or go to the washroom before your mind will be able to start dreaming again.
6) Men and women dream differently researchers have discovered that women and men dream differently and they dream about different things several studies have documented that men dream about things like for example weapons far more often than women do women on the other hand dream a lot more about things involving clothes furthermore men's dreams contain a lot more aggression and physical activity while women's dreams more often have to do with emotional themes such as exclusion or rejection in addition a lot more conversations are being held in women's dreams than in men's women's dreams are also a bit longer and involve more people than men's dreams what might seem somewhat surprising is that in men's dreams men appear twice as often as women women's dreams for some reason are more balanced men and women appear roughly as often.
7) 50% of Dreams are negative according to research negative emotions emerge in many of your dreams your dreams are in a sense fair about this all about half of them are positive but half are also negative negative dreams tend to involve emotions such as anger fear insecurity and sadness.
8) dreams can be a sign of anxiety or underlying stress our dreams show that humans everywhere seem to have a lot in common no matter where we are born or where we grow up our dreams often involve being chased attacked or falling other common themes are feelings of being frozen or and mobilized or arriving late sometimes we even dream about appearing naked before others while the meanings of such dreams can defer depending on a person's particular circumstances these dreams can often be connected to feelings of anxiety or stress if you experience unpleasant dreams try to pay more attention to taking care of yourself also try to deal with circumstances that are causing you stress.
9) Premonition dreams there are some really astounding instances in which people have foreseen things in their dreams that would happen to them these dreams often turned out to be surprisingly accurate were these dreams a glass into the future or were they just a matter of circumstance well some pretty strange cases of premonition are recorded in history for example many of the 911 victims dreamed about the coming terror attack mark twain dreamed about his brother's death Abraham Lincoln dreamed that he would be assassinated the verified dreams of 19 people foresaw the sinking of the Titanic.
10) dreaming in black and white your dreams might be very vivid and colorful a lot of people have such dreams yet some people say that their dreams are black and white why studies have established that age and the media one is exposed to might play a role in what colors occur in people's dreams for example older people grew up with black-and-white television and photography many of them have monochromatic dreams it's the way they picture people and events external to themselves younger people on the other hand have no nothing but color photography and television.
11) Dreams recharge your creativity okay so dreams might contain some subconscious messages but what use can they really be well dreams can help you in various aspects of your life everyday researchers suggest the dreams are especially helpful in developing your creative capabilities artists often remark on how useful their dreams are in their creative processes but dreams can help anyone by providing creativity toward solving everyday problems just as you use your waking imagination at the point when you are attempting to be imaginative dreams do definitely this while you are snoozing while you rest your psyche is managing and working out issues the cycle is entirely like the innovative cycle you use when wakeful at the end of the day the inventive cycle proceeds with when you're sleeping and your fantasies really help improve your innovativeness as you might know dreams can even legitimately furnish you with motivation suppose for instance that you've quite recently envisioned something truly stunning or you encountered something testing or you remembered some enthusiastic occasion these sorts of dreams can help interface with you to solid emotions and hence assist you with being more imaginative.
12) Dreams have changed history so you now know the dream served to refresh and support the creative process history shows that many dreams directly led to ideas that change the world for example Larry Page came up with his idea for Google dmitri mendeleev came up with a periodic table of elements Elias Howe was inspired to invent the sewing machine James Watson envisioned the DNA double helix Tesla got the idea for an alternating current generator 13)It's possible to control your dreams have you ever had a dream while you were sleeping and we're aware that you were dreaming at the time that kind of dream is referred to as a lucid dream it is thought that lucid dreaming arises from a state that combines both consciousness and REM sleep while you are in such a state you can often control the contents of your dreams about 50% of people remember having a lucid dream at least once in their lives and some people have lucid dreams over and over again 14) You always dream you just don't always remember yes always even if you don't remember a single dream most people have several dreams each time they sleep these dreams can concern any number of scenarios and differ in intensity yet many people just don't remember them once they wake up over half about 60% in fact don't remember anything of their dreams after five minutes of waking up after just 10 minutes most people forget about 90% of the details from their dreams so what you're a member of your dreams is only a small fraction of what you actually dreamed but there is an exception if you happen to wake up suddenly while you are in the REM face of sleep you are often able to remember quite a lot of your dreams content of course dreams can also stick with you if you have a particular dream repeatedly or if they contain some very strong emotions if you want to remember more of your dreams keep a notepad by your bedside as soon as you wake up write down anything you can recall once you've recorded your dreams you can refer to your notes and see whether any themes are recurring you can even try to identify any messages your subconscious may be communicating to you so there you have it pretty interesting don't you think these dream facts may just be the tip of a very large iceberg psychologists and neuroscientists are still conducting research into the purpose of dreaming and the meanings of Dreams many are convinced that there is still a lot to learn share your thoughts and comments below and tell us about some of your most interesting dreams if you remember any. Thanks
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