Why do people dream at night?


Last reviewed on: 20th November, 2020

Dreams are stories and pictures that our brains create while we sleep. They can be enjoyable, fun, passionate, worrying, scared and sometimes curious. Dreams can be true, they can make you feel joyful, unhappy, or frightened. And they may appear unclear or completely rational. 

Every night while we sleep, we detach from our conscious thought processes. The lights go off and we are secured from exterior stimuli including noise, temperature and pain. But our interior stimuli such as emotions and fears are still echoing around, looking for a way to be overheard, then dreams form. 

Primordial civilizations saw dreams as gateways for receiving wisdom from the gods. Modern theories propose that it is not as complex as that.


FACTS ABOUT DREAMS

Here are some strategic points about dreams;

1. However a few people may not recall dreaming, it is thought that everybody dreams between 3 to 6 times per night 

2. It is believed that each dream lasts between 5 to 20 minutes 

3. About 95% of dreams are gone by the time a person gets out of bed

4. Dreaming can aid you learn and improve long-term memories

5. Females dream more about family, children and indoor settings as related with men

6. Remembering something from last week that has occurred in your dream is called the ‘dream lag effect’ 

7. There is variation in the quality and quantity of dreams comes across in rapid eye movement and non-rapid eye movement while we sleep 

8. About 48% of people that included in a dream are familiar with dreaming person 

9. Sleep and dream excellence are affected by alcohol

10. Dreams are Figurative (Symbolic)
If you dream about some specific matter it is not frequently that the dream is about that. Dreams express in extremely symbolic language. Any symbol your dream picks on it is most not likely to be a symbol for itself. 

11. Blind people also dream
People who developed blindness after birth can see images in their dreams, and those who are born blind do not see any pictures, but have dreams alike vivid comprising their senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. Unsighted (blind) people dream more with other sensory modules related with sighted people. 

12. While dreaming, we only see faces that we previously know
Our thoughts (mind) are not designing faces in our dreams we see actual faces of real people that we have seen throughout our life, but sometimes may not be known or remembered. We have altogether seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an infinite supply of characters for our brain to exploit during our dreams.

Posted by: Lusubilo A. Mwaijengo

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