Dreams... What is a dream??? Dreams are stories and images that our mind creates while we sleep. They can be fun, entertaining, romantic, disturbing, and sometimes bizarre. We spend roughly one-third of our lives sleeping, and during that time, we dream. While many theories exist to explain why we dream, but no one yet fully understands their purpose or what exactly dreams mean. Do you know, people dream about six years during their lives on average. Imagine.... six years we spent absorbed in wondrous, frightening, thrilling, and sometimes completely incomprehensible sensations. So, let's get into deep and learn more about some astonishing facts about dreams...
Your mind is more active during a dream than when you are awake.
During sleep, our 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 the muscle damage, and to freshen up for the next day's demand. Yet, as paradoxical as it may seem, your mind is a buzz of activity while asleep, even more so than when you are awake. Here, the question arises why the brain is so active during sleep? You experience a lot during a typical day when you are awake. Your brain is so busy taking in everything you see, hear, and feel, and it has little time actually to process, categorize, and store all the information. When you are asleep, your brain finally has time to make some sense of it all.
It all happens in your subconscious.
Your conscious mind relaxes when you are asleep, but your subconscious never really sleeps. When you are asleep, your subconscious mind is where all that dreaming takes place. Ex: your subconscious mind is busy processing your thoughts and concerns; this processing generates dreams. Dreams speak the language composed of images, metaphors, and other symbols that your conscious mind usually has a hard time grasping.
Your dreams only see familiar faces.
This is beacuse your subconscious can't invent new faces. That only makes sense beacuse your subconscious only remembers things. So, any face that appears in your dreams is a face you already have encountered.
You cannot read in your dreams.
You are typically engaged in a lot of activity in your dreams, but one thing you are not doing is reading. 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 5000 years. So, your subconscious mind 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.
Sensory incorporation.
It may seem strange, but it actually should make some sense. For you to dream, your body needs to be relaxed. If your body is disturbed by external sensations such as noise or internal sensations such as bladder pressure, your subconscious will be affected by this. Anything like that will bring you out of a dream state. 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 so your mind will be able to start dreaming again.
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