Facts About Sleep and Dreams
- Every human dreams. There are tons of people who cant remember there dreams when they wake up but they still get them
- Human beings spend roughly around 6 years of there life time dreaming
- Sometimes we get dream not in our REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement)
- People who suffer from personality disorder lack dream activity
- Our brains tend to be way more active when we sleep then awake in our walking life
- Humans tend to have around 3 to 7 dreams a night. We dream around 2 to 3 hours in a whole night
- Your body burns more calories sleeping then it does in the day time
- Information that we learn before we go to bed tends to stick with us longer than information any other time
- If you avoid your sleep for more than 10 days you will die
Dreams Prevent Psychosis
In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM sleep the student’s brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage.