Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Did you know...?

Small children spend 50% of their sleep time dreaming. Adults spend 20% of the night dreaming while senior citizens spend only 15% of the night dreaming.

Infants spend up to 8 hours a day in REM sleep.

Children do not appear in their own dreams until the ages of 3 or 4.

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 students brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage.

The blind dream more prominently in sound, smell, touch and emotion.

People who became blind after birth claim to see in their dreams.

Snoring ceases during the dream-state.

The bible contains more than 700 dreams and visions.

The Rock Classic "Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney in a dream

The story of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde was a dream that Robert Louis Stevenson had.

Every body’s favorite monster, Frankenstein came to Mary Shelly in a dream.

There are 8 recorded cases of survivors and would be passengers who dreamed of the sinking of the Titanic - before it sank!

Mark Twain dreamed of his brother's death in a river boat accident - before it actually happened!

We have the sewing machine thanks to Elias Howe who dreamed of how to make it work.

Albert Einstein claims that "Einsteins Theory" came to him in a dream.

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