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15 Interesting Facts about Dreams

1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams（九成的梦你都不记得）
Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

2. Blind People also Dream（盲人也会做梦）
People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.

3. Everybody Dreams(每个人都会做梦。除了极为严重的心理疾病患者，每个人都会做梦。 如果你觉得你不会作梦，那也只是你起床后忘记了而已)
Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think you are not dreaming – you just forget your dreams.

4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces That We already Know（我们在梦里只会看到我们所知道的事实）
Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

5. Not Everybody Dreams in Color（不是每个人的梦都是彩色的。有12％的人（非盲人）的梦境只会是黑白的，剩余的88％的梦境则是彩色的）
A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but these results began to change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from black-and-white film and TV to color media.

6. Dreams are Symbolic（梦是有象征意义的）
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.

7. Emotions（情绪。在梦里最常出现的情绪是焦急。 梦中的负面情绪比正面情绪多。）
The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.

8. You can have four to seven dreams in one night（你一个晚上会做约四到七个梦）
On average you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.

9. Animals Dream Too（动物也会做梦）
Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds as if they are chasing something in a dream.

10. Body Paralysis（无法动弹。在快速动眼期的过程中，身体会无法动弹。 这是一种保护机制，避免身体在现实生活中因为梦境的关系而产生反应）
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night’s sleep.
During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.

11. Dream Incorporation（受外界刺激影响。睡觉时，我们的大脑会解读外界的刺激，然后这些内容出现在梦境里面）
Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means that sometimes in our dreams we hear a sound from reality and incorporate it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you are in a concert while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.

12. Men and Women Dream Differently（男人和女人的梦不同。男人梦到男人的机率比较高。 在男人的梦里面，70％上场的角色都是别的男人。 而女人梦境里的角色则较为平均，男女的数量比例几乎是一半。 此外，男人的梦比女人的更具侵略性）
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. Aside from that, men generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female lot.

13. Precognitive Dreams（预知梦。研究指出，18%到38%的人经历过至少一次的预知梦；而70%的人有“似曾相识”的经历）
Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive dream and 70% have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher – ranging from 63% to 98%.

14. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming（打鼾的时候不会作梦。这是一个网路谣言，目前似乎还没有科学根据）
This fact is repeated all over the Internet, but I’m a bit suspicious whether it’s really true as I haven’t found any scientific evidence to support it.

15.You can experience an or_gasm in your dream

资料来源：http://www.boredpanda.com/15-interesting-facts-about-dreams-dreaming/

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