Dreams come in three stages: light sleep, deep sleep and REM. During REM (Rapid Eye Movement), our eyes roll around rapidly under our eyelids. During deep sleep, we have almost no contact with the real world. And if we wake up naturally, we’ll be in light sleep until we actually awaken.
When we dream, we don’t know we’re dreaming. In our dreams, we often think the world around us is reality even if the things that appear in front of us are absolutely unreal. The reason for this is that our frontal lobes (the part of the brain at the front) aren’t acting much. However, they are when we’re awake, and at those times we’ll know for sure that we’re definitely not dreaming.
While dreaming, we have no sense of time. We don’t even know how long our dreams last - they might only last an hour. But still, according to a fact in What Makes Me Me? by Robert Winston, you’ll spend around five years of your life in dreams. And another that states, the average person dreams about 1,825 times a year.
Furthermore, you won’t copy the motions you make in your dreams; for instance, you won’t start running a marathon if that’s what you’re dreaming about! This acts as a barrier to stop you copying the movements you make whilst dreaming. This is because your brain signals to your muscles to move (to correspond with the motion you make in your dream) but your spinal cord ignores these signals.
According to some people, if you want to remember your dreams well, lie your pillow flat before you sleep. This helps keep a good recollection of your dream, because your blood circulates better this way.
To sum up, dreaming is an interesting topic that even scientists can’t completely understand. And maybe some of it will always remain a mystery.
By Kenza, Online Club Member
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This is a really interesting article about sleep and dreams. Another way to remember our dreams is to write them down immediately after waking up! :D Otherwise, we usually forget most of our dreams after waking up. I also read a fact somewhere that we dream an average of four to seven dreams each night, but we forget them as soon as we wake up.
ReplyDeleteAwesome article! I learnt many facts about sleep and dreams from it. :)
Thanks, Fatima! :D Yeah, I think I heard about that somewhere too! I think I'll give it a go. True! Yeah, that one's really interesting... I mean, it's kind of hard to believe we dream around 4-7 dreams per night, when we really think we've only dreamt 1-2 dreams. XD Thanks so much! I'm glad you did! :) (And so did I! :P)
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