"... because all life is a dream, dreams are dreams themselves."

We dream while we sleep, we dream when we are awake, yet the conscious state of reality differs from that of the unconscious in dreams which we cannot control as we wish. That is why the dream world is interesting, mysterious, intriguing, but sometimes dangerous. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and scientists believe that dreaming is the digestive system of the brain, so I bring you 14 interesting facts about dreams and sleep that you may not have known. The record for sleepless nights was held by a 17-year-old from the USA for the purpose of scientific research in 1964, and he managed to stay awake for 264 hours. Since then, his record has often been broken, but it is not recorded whether he was broken. But the Guinness Book of Records no longer supports similar experiments because they are very harmful to human health and can often be fatal. But we believe that you do not have a problem with insomnia, just the opposite, but let's look at it from a positive side - it is healthier than sleep disorders! Also, it only takes 4 days without sleep to start hallucinating, so you don’t have to consume drugs but just don’t sleep. Experimenting with dreams can be dangerous, keep that in mind, no matter how much you are attracted and integrated. The myth of how you shouldn’t wake someone who walks in their sleep is really a myth.

Namely, people often claim that it is dangerous to wake someone who walks in their sleep because this can provoke angry, aggressive and dangerous reactions in a walking sleeper. Anything! A person will, if you wake him up, react the same as anyone you wake up after sleep; confused and disoriented. Waking up these people can be more beneficial than harmful because sleeping is dangerous for them and they can easily get hurt. The dreams of men and women are mostly different. Thus, men more often dream of spending time outside the home, are more active in dreams and often dream of strangers, and in 70% of cases they dream of men. Women's dreams, on the other hand, are more often related to emotional relationships with people a woman knows and loves, and their dreams are more positive and pleasant than men's (since they often feel aggression and negative feelings in dreams), and they dream of men and women alike. Also, women need an hour of sleep more than men, and a lack of just that one hour can be one of the causes of depression. Furthermore, women remember more of their dreams during pregnancy than others, due to a hormonal disorder in the body during pregnancy. It is unlikely that you will remember the dream if you wake up with an alarm because because of the trauma all the memory will go into oblivion. If only that was possible on the air. So scientists claim that if you want to remember at least part of your dreams, wake up slowly, in a few minutes, and during that period think about what you dreamed.

They also recommend minimizing the visualization of images that pass through your head because - the dream escapes if you chase it. Furthermore, the body still has its natural biological clock. For example, when we wake up a few minutes before the alarm, we can thank the hormone in the human body - adrenocorticotropin. This hormone is considered a human internal alarm, it is activated a few hours before waking up and scientists believe this hormone prepares our body for the stressful and strenuous activities that follow throughout the day. So tell yourself that you need to get up early the next day, which will be a sufficient stimulus to activate this alarm. Or get a real alarm anyway. Newborns and babies spend about 80% of their sleep in the REM phase of sleep, which means they dream a lot. At the same time, research has shown that children dream animals more often than adults, but still dream shorter dreams and about 40% of those dreams are nightmares. Scientists believe that through them children try to overcome their fears from reality.

The quality of sleep depends on the stage of sleep in which we dream. Thus, the most detailed and most related dreams occur in the REM phase, while dreams in phases 1 and 2 are simpler and shorter. Also, dreams that occur during the deepest sleep are very unrelated and sometimes are nothing more than color or feeling. Research has shown that people who remember their dreams more often react more strongly to sounds during sleep than those who don't really remember their dreams.

Of course, there are people who are afraid of sleeping and who suffer from clinophobia, intense fear of going to bed, but also independent sleep and nightmares, while some individuals are afraid to sleep because they think they might drown in death. Less sleep also means less alcohol, which is good if you’re on the verge of bankruptcy, but still celebrate life, the ups and downs. Thus, the lack of sleep for five days affects your body, which then needs a much smaller amount of alcohol to get drunk. As for the colors in the dream, they have a different connotative meaning for each individual. For example, if someone dreams of red, it arouses a feeling of passion in him, while for someone else it may arouse a feeling of aggression. Although passion can sometimes be like fighting bulls if you have such a view of the world and relationships. Of course, the "problem" that each of us is familiar with - the internet - is also to blame for sleep disorders, and the possibility of all-day internet access also supports this. Most people dream for about 90 minutes during the night, and the longest dreams last 30-45 minutes and occur in the morning. Maybe that is one of the reasons for boycotting the parting from the bed. If you snore, you are not dreaming. Either one or the other.

Former chronic smokers claim that, after quitting, they have much more vivid dreams! People who have watched black and white movies on TV during their lifetime have dreams with fewer colors than those who have watched color TV since childhood. Research has shown that it is impossible to snore and dream at the same time. Blind people also dream. But while people who have lost their sight dream images, those people who are blind from birth have dreams based on smells and sounds. Many people claim that they do not dream, but that is not true. Everyone dreams, only 60% of people completely forget their dreams. Bad dreams are more common than good ones because most people throw out negative feelings like fear, anger or anxiety through dreams. Animals also dream, which has been confirmed by research. All the faces we see in dreams are faces we have already seen at least once in our lives (whether we are aware of it or not). On average, people forget 90% of the dream they saw. Not everyone dreams in colors.

Research has shown that men's dreams are on average more aggressive than women's dreams. With a little practice, dreams can even be managed. You can fly like that whenever you want or do whatever else you want. You just can’t influence the onset of sleep. There is a drug called Dimethyltryptamine, and this hallucinogenic drug allows you to dream whenever you want, even during the day. of course, the drug is illegal. On average, a person dreams between four and seven dreams during the night. The phenomenon, but not explained, of premonitory dreams has been proven. People sometimes know how to dream about an event that happens later, so for example, Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his assassination, and some victims of 9/11, exactly what happened to them. There is no scientific explanation. Women in dreams dream of men and women equally, while men generally dream of men more. External stimuli affect dreams, so for example if you are cold you can dream that you are on ice…

You only remember the dream during which you woke up. After the dream is over, your brain clears it. That’s why you don’t have memories of all the dreams during the night. Sleepwalking is dangerous. There are known cases like a woman who drove 30 kilometers to her cousin's house where she killed him. During their lifetime, people spend a total of about six hours dreaming. People who try to quit smoking have longer and more intense dreams. Babies cannot dream of themselves until they are 3-4 years old.