Showing posts with label dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dream. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 August 2013

10 amazing facts about your brain during sleep

Most people dream about 1-2 hours a night and have an average of 4-7 dreams each night.

Five minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten. Ten minutes after a dream, over 90% is forgotten. Write down your dreams immediately if you want to remember them.

Dreams are more than just visual images, and blind people do dream. Whether or not they dream in pictures depends on if they were born blind or lost their vision later.

Some people (about 12%) dream only in black and white while others dream in color.

If you are awakened during a dream, you are much more likely to remember the dream than if you slept until a full night's sleep.

While you sleep at night may be the best time for your brain to consolidate all your memories from the day.

As those who invest in dream dictionaries can attest, dreams almost never represent what they actually are. The unconscious mind strives to make connections with concepts you will understand, so dreams are largely symbolic representations.

Japanese researchers have successfully developed a technology that can put thoughts on a screen and may soon be able to screen people's dreams.

Caffeine works to block naturally occuring adenosine in the body, creating alertness. Scientists have discovered this connection and learned that doing the opposite - boosting adenosine - can actually promote more natural sleep patterns and help eliminate insomnia.

A study published in the journal Sleep Medicine described how Disney creators used real sleep disorders in many of their animated pets.

Sunday, 11 August 2013

10 fun facts about brain

Your brain stopped growing at the age of 18.

You can't tickle yourself because your brain distinguished between unexpected external touch and your own touch. 

While you sleep, your body produces a hormone that may prevent you from acting out your dreams, leaving you virtually paralyzed. 

Every time you blink, your brain kicks in and keeps things illuminated so the whole world doesn't go dark each time you blink (about 20,000 times a day). 

If you are snoring, you are not dreaming. 

Laughing at a joke is no simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the brain. 

Just because you don't remember your dreams doesn't mean you don't dream. Everyone dreams! 

Those who are left-handed or ambidextrous have a corpus collosum (the part of the brain that bridges the two halves) that is about 11% larger than those who are right-handed. 

Brain waves are more active while dreaming than when you are awake. 

Scientists discovered that men and women's brains react differently to pain, which explains why they may perceive or discuss pain differently.