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one thing i find it strange...

 

i always dream of my old home, never of my new home (although i have moved to my new home for almost 10 years)

 

another strange thing is I have the same dreams repeated over the years... dunno why

 

 

 

Top 10 Amazing Facts About Dreams

 

here are the top 10 amazing facts about dreams.

10. Blind People Dream

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People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body’s need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.

 

9. You Forget 90% of your Dreams

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Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

 

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
[...]

Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

 

8. Everybody Dreams

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Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women. In addition, both men and women experience sexually related physical reactions to their dreams regardless of whether the dream is sexual in nature; males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow.

 

7. Dreams Prevent Psychosis

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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 student’s brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage. [Source]

 

6. We Only Dream of What We Know

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Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad’s car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

 

5. Not Everyone Dreams in Color

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A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident. It is unknown whether the impact of a dream relating to violence or death is more emotionally charged for a person who dreams in color than one who dreams in black and white. [Source]

 

4. Dreams are not about what they are about

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If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar. Its like writing a poem and saying that a group of ants were like machines that never stop. But you would never compare something to itself, for example: “That beautiful sunset was like a beautiful sunset”. So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

 

3. Quitters have more vivid dreams

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People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience. Additionally, according to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: “Among 293 smokers abstinent for between 1 and 4 weeks, 33% reported having at least 1 dream about smoking. In most dreams, subjects caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt. Dreams about smoking were the result of tobacco withdrawal, as 97% of subjects did not have them while smoking, and their occurrence was significantly related to the duration of abstinence. They were rated as more vivid than the usual dreams and were as common as most major tobacco withdrawal symptoms.” [Source]

 

2. External Stimuli Invade our Dreams

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This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream. My own experience of this includes repeatedly drinking a large glass of water in the dream which satisfies me, only to find the thirst returning shortly after – this thirst… drink… thirst… loop often recurs until I wake up and have a real drink. The famous painting above (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening) by Salvador Dali, depicts this concept.

 

1. You are paralyzed while you sleep

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Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. According to the Wikipedia article on dreaming, “Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.”

 

Bonus: Extra Facts

 

1. When you are snoring, you are not dreaming.
2. Toddlers do not dream about themselves until around the age of 3. From the same age, children typically have many more nightmares than adults do until age 7 or 8.
3. If you are awakened out of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, you are more likely to remember your dream in a more vivid way than you would if you woke from a full night sleep.

 

 

 

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Early morning I dreamt of 3 cobras attacking me and manage to shoo 2 away.

 

The third one very fierce and attack me. Tried to run but cannot as legs just don't want to move. Turn around, I caught hold of its head and the fangs shows up and twist to my hand trying to stab me. The fangs reach 4 inches long. Searching for a pier to pull the fangs, I can't find one ... [sweatdrop]

 

Then I forced it head onto the ground and using force to break off both the fangs. Poison flowed out from the broken fangs and onto my hands. Trying hard to shake off the poison and my alarm bell rang at 5.15am.... :wacko:

 

Sit on the bed for 5 minutes and trying to figure out what my dream was telling me ... :huh:

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Early morning I dreamt of 3 cobras attacking me and manage to shoo 2 away.

 

The third one very fierce and attack me. Tried to run but cannot as legs just don't want to move. Turn around, I caught hold of its head and the fangs shows up and twist to my hand trying to stab me. The fangs reach 4 inches long. Searching for a pier to pull the fangs, I can't find one ... [sweatdrop]

 

Then I forced it head onto the ground and using force to break off both the fangs. Poison flowed out from the broken fangs and onto my hands. Trying hard to shake off the poison and my alarm bell rang at 5.15am.... :wacko:

 

Sit on the bed for 5 minutes and trying to figure out what my dream was telling me ... :huh:

 

You eat too much snake. Now they take revenge.

 

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it's been a long time since i last had a nightmare (not that i want one)

 

the last one i had was several years ago... so frightening that it startled me and i woke up in sweats

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You eat too much snake. Now they take revenge.

 

 

Maybe 4-D number

 

3 cobras

2 shoo off

1 fight with me

4 inches fangs ....

 

 

[sly]

 

Will buy later after work 3214 ... [smash]

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Early morning I dreamt of 3 cobras attacking me and manage to shoo 2 away.

 

The third one very fierce and attack me. Tried to run but cannot as legs just don't want to move. Turn around, I caught hold of its head and the fangs shows up and twist to my hand trying to stab me. The fangs reach 4 inches long. Searching for a pier to pull the fangs, I can't find one ... [sweatdrop]

 

Then I forced it head onto the ground and using force to break off both the fangs. Poison flowed out from the broken fangs and onto my hands. Trying hard to shake off the poison and my alarm bell rang at 5.15am.... :wacko:

 

Sit on the bed for 5 minutes and trying to figure out what my dream was telling me ... :huh:

 

 

Interpretation: Porker and his two friends going to try to gay gangbang you. Third one is Porker (most persistent).

 

"Snake" = ...well, trouser snake

 

"Poison" = cum

 

You don't owe me anything for this specialist consult. [laugh]

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Maybe 4-D number

 

3 cobras

2 shoo off

1 fight with me

4 inches fangs ....

 

 

[sly]

 

Will buy later after work 3214 ... [smash]

 

[thumbsup] [thumbsup]

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Interpretation: Porker and his two friends going to try to gay gangbang you. Third one is Porker (most persistent).

 

"Snake" = ...well, trouser snake

 

"Poison" = cum

 

You don't owe me anything for this specialist consult. [laugh]

 

Hmmm............. I managed to overpowered Porker and [smash] his snake-head ... [laugh][laugh]

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