Eye-opening facts and history of dreams

 History of dreams:

If we look back into the history, we might see that different cultures had different ideas and philosophies about dreams while researches has given us some eye opening information about dreams.

Let's explore the historical depth of dreams!

Many years ago, people of ancient Greek and Rome thought that dreams were source of messages from God, dead or a loved ones. They believed that their dreams predict the future. Even they built special and spiritual places where they took a nap in a hope of getting messages from their worth-worship ones.

                                                            

 

Later, Aristotle the famous philosopher thought dreams were just your body's way of working through things, like when you got sick. In places like Egypt and China, priests interpreted dreams, thinking they were special and consider dreams in the sense of clues about a person's life.

In middle ages, dreams were seen as a bad, like devil try to distract person's mind or soul through negative messages. Then in the 19th century, scientist named as Sigmund Freud, thought dreams could tell us things about mind or emotions.

Facts that will blow up your mind:                                               

1. Dreams are in picture form with little sound or movements.
2. Blind people also see dreams, they actually know how pictures and colors look like.
3. Nightmares occur mostly in the last 3rd of the night.
4. About 12% of people lack color blindness in dreams, they just dream in black or white.
5. Your feeling like guilt, shame, hate, love, blame etc will come out in dreams.
6. Around 95% of dreams are forgotten by time a person gets out of bed.
7. A person could remember 5% of his/her dream, most probably the percent of dream we remember, they remain in our memory so that we could see them to become true with our eyes.
8. Mostly dreams are linked with the events or thoughts that recently occurred.
9. Longer dreams can occur in the morning hours.
10. We only dream of what or whom we already knows, we would have seen hundreds or thousands of faces in our lives, our brain can utilize these faces during dreams.
11. Mostly men may dream about aggression or physical activities while the women may dream about fear, relationships and freedom.
12. Sleep recharges your body and dream recharges your creativity.
13. Every creature or a specie who have brain could see dream, even animals also dream.
14. You always wake up after seeing your or others death, because your brain don't know what happens after death.
15. Men and women, both experiences sexual arousal during dreams but men experiences more than women.
16. Dreams usually depends upon your gender, cast, religion or sleeping position.      

      Anyways, reality is that dreams are a reflection of our imaginations and emotions, they may not come true in literal sense!