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Dreams

1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams
Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

2. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces That We already Know.

3. Dreams are Symbolic
If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

4. Emotions
The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.

5. You can have four to seven dreams in one night you just don't remember all of them.

6. Men and Women Dream Differently
Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man's dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman's dream contains almost an equal number of men and women.

7. Dream Master
The good part is that you can often control your dreams. You can manipulate, twist and turn the beginning and the ending of your dreams like it's a movie being shot in front of you. It is called the "Lucid dreaming" (one is aware that he/she is dreaming) phase.

8. Entry level
Toddlers don't star in their own dreams till they are about 3-4 years old.

9. Daydreaming IS real
Psychologists say that daydreaming is actually what occurs if your dream has been carried forward, it is basically related to what you dreamt about when you were fast asleep.

10. Our bodies are paralyzed while we sleep.

11. We all have recurring dreams.

12. Foreseeing the future in our dreams.
People all across the world have had at least 1 precognitive dream and many have experienced déjà vu

13. Dreaming about flying has been around since ancient times and that too before man invented airplanes.

14. Studies have shown that children tend to have more dreams about animals than adults. Lions, bears, snakes, dogs, cats, horses and some mythical creatures/monsters were the most frequent animal figures in those dreams.

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