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. 

About brainwaves

Our brain is made of billions of cells called neurons. To communicate with each other, neurons use electricity. The combination of millions of neurons sending signals at once produces an enormous amount of electrical activity in the brain, which can be detected using sensitive medical equipment, measuring levels of electricity over areas of the scalp.
The combination of electrical activity of the brain is commonly called a 'Brainwave pattern', because of its cyclic, wave-like nature.
Our mind regulated its activities by means of electric waves which are registered in the brain, emiting tiny electrochemical impulses of varied frequencies, which can be registered by an electroencephalogram (EEG).
With the discovery of brain waves, came the discovery that electrical activity in the brain will change depending on what the person is doing. For instance, the brainwaves of a sleeping person are vastly different than the ones of someone wide awake. Over the years, more sensitive equipment has brought us closer to figuring out exactly what brainwaves represent and with that, what they mean about a person's health and state of mind.
The known brainwaves and their associated mental states are:
- Beta emited when we are consciously alert, or we feel agitated, tense, afraid.
- Alpha when we are in a state of physical and mental relaxation, but aware of what is happening around us.
- Theta which is a state of somnolence with reduced consciusness.
- Delta when there is unconsciousness, deep sleep or catalepsy.