End Over End

Dreams are capturing my interest lately. I'm doing a project on them for my psychology class. AndI'mlearningthings.

Only 15% of the population dreams in color.

Dreams about sexual encounters are more likely to represent an area of your life that you're very invested in, rather than a person you're sexually interested in. For example: a sex dream about Evgeni Malkin most likely represents an extreme love and investment in hockey. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule...

Dreams involving nudity most likely mean that you feel vulnerable in that area of your life.

Dreams involving being chased often mean you're feeling guilty about something, while one where you're chasing something means that there's a certain goal you're trying to reach in some area of your life.

There are two theories of dreams. One is the Freudian theory which assumes that dreams are an individual's subconscious' way of trying to tell the conscious self an important piece of information. The other states that dreams are the mind's way of processing the events and

information that it experienced during the day.

Which do you believe?

Do you dream in colour? I do, usually, but sometimes I get a black and white or sepia one.

Do you remember your dreams? And, if so, what's the weirdest dream you've ever had?

I've started keeping track of mine on a second blog called Fractured/Subconscious at http://www.fracturedsubconscious.blogspot.com/

Consciously telling yourself that you'll remember your dreams before you go to bed actually increases your chances of remembering them.

The average person spends about six years of their lifetime dreaming. That's over 2100 days spent in a different world.

Blind people do dream. Whether visual images will appear in their dream depends on whether they where blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses.

Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.

The word dream stems from the Middle English word, 'dreme' which means "joy" and "music".

Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.

Studies have shown that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.

Physiologically speaking, researchers found that during dreaming REM sleep, males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow - no matter what the content of the dream. In fact, "wet dreams" may not necessarily coincide with overtly sexual dream content.

People who are giving up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They don't appear in their own dreams until the age of 3 or 4.

A person cannot snore and dream at the same time.