Guide to All Wellness

We all love a good dream, there’s nothing better than living out our fantasies in dream world. Dreams are an unusual thing, we don’t know why or how we dream, all we know is that it is our brain working overtime. Whatever the reason for dreaming, you simply cannot beat a good dream!

Here are some fascinating facts about dreaming you might find interesting…

• We all dream, some of us just don’t remember them
• Those who are blind after birth see images in their dreams, but those people blind from birth don’t
• Our dreams last for approximately one to two hours and we can have between four and seven dreams in one night
• Five minutes after the dream ends, half of it is forgotten and after 10 minutes, we will have forgotten 90% of the dream
• Our brain is more active when we are asleep than when we are awake
• If awoken during REM, we are more likely to remember the dream than if awoken naturally
• Toddlers do not dream about themselves, they do not appear in their dreams until they are three or four years old
• 12% of people can only dream in black and white
• People who are giving up smoking will have more vivid dreams
• The most common setting for a dream is your house
• If we snore, we cannot dream
• Women dream about men and women equally, while men dream more about other men
• A lack of dreaming can mean a protein deficiency or personality disorder
• We have seen everyone who appears in our dreams at some point in our lives

Drop off into dream land now with a new mattress or bed.