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20 facts you probably didn’t know about dreaming

We all have dreams. Sleeping seems to be the most common thing in the whole world. However, dreaming can be a whole different experience to each of us. Everybody dreams. The thing is what is that you dream about. Mostly, people tend to dream things that are in their subconscious. Things that are maybe not finished something that you started talking about and left in the middle or perhaps something that just crossed your mind a few seconds.

Why do we dream? What happens when we are dreaming? This list will tell you a few facts you may not know about dreaming that will help you to understand them a bit better.

Did you know that we forget the 90% of our dreams?

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Between 5 and 15 minutes after you wake up from your dream you forget almost everything. How many times did you wake up all excited trying to tell somebody else everything you dreamed about and couldn't say a word? I mean, in your head, there was a whole world that you are forgetting minute by minute. Stressing, right?

Blind dreams

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If you were blind your whole life other senses as smelling, hearing and touching start to play an important role in your dreams. However, if you saw some images after being born you will also see them in your dreams. Can you imagine dreaming in black? No images, just different smells and textures…Weird, right?

Everybody dreams

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Even though you don't remember each of your dreams you always dream and everybody always dream too. The fact is that we tend to forget our dreams really quickly which makes us also forget that we actually dreamed something.

We just see known faces in our dreams

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Just think of a face that you didn't know before a dream and appeared in one of them. You can't, right? That´s because we dream about faces that we already know or have seen somewhere. Our unconscious can't invent a whole new face but can remember one that we have already seen.

Some people dream in black and white

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I personally thought this only happened to dogs, however studies that some people actually does dream with no color. This has to do with the means of communication being black and white. After this, around 1950 things changed and people started dreaming in colors.

Negative emotions are the most dominating ones in dreams.

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Our head tends to feel more negative than positive when it comes to dreams. Didn’t you realize that nightmares are the dreams you remember the most? They leave you something. Either e message or just a feeling that stays there which rarely happens with sweet dreams.

Animals dream too

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Studies have been made on animals and yes people, they dream too. Have you ever seen your little dog trembling or making funny faces while he was sleeping? Well, that’s because they are actually dreaming.

Body paralysis

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Did you know that while you’re dreaming, your body paralyses so that it does not copy your dream movements? However, this apparently doesn’t happen the same way to dogs as you can watch them move their whole body and face while dreaming.

Incorporation

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Sounds always incorporate to our dreams. For example, whenever you leave your TV on and maybe the news is saying that there’s a missing person. You in your dream can possibly think that that missing person is you and can even be mixed with a bunch of other ideas. Interesting and a little scary too, right?

Men and woman dream differently

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Did you know that men tend to dream more about other men than women’s? They also tend to feel more aggressive emotions than women. This surprised me, I thought only gay men dreamed more about other men but apparently that didn’t have nothing to do with it.

Different smells also influence dreams

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Whatever you have around you influence your dreams. For example, if your room is dirty with bad smells, your dreams might possibly relate to that, giving you negative energy. This is because your brains associate dirtiness to negativity and everything gets mixed up.

Universal dreams

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There are some personal dreams which are the majority. However, there are some of them that are just for everyone. Dreams where we are chased, attacked, when we fall into the void, when we found ourselves naked in public or even dreams where we are immobile are recurrent topics.

Body’s reaction as if you were awake

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Whatever you experienced in your dreams you also lived it with your own body. So this is why if you were tired, scared or even stressed out in your dream, you’ll wake up feeling the same way. It’s the same body who is experiencing everything.

Dreaming control

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Half of the population remembers controlling their dream at least once. I personally can’t think of this as a possibility. I mean, dreams just happen in your head I don’t know how could you control where that dream is going. It’s a little like dreaming awake. There are people who give trainings to make this happen.

Nightmares with an origin

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When we are not going through good times, fighting with your couple, work issues and family preoccupations these ones are the main character of our lives. NIGHTMARES. Yes, the worst feeling on earth. It’s not enough to be feeling miserable in real life that your head makes you feel bad in dreams also. Thanks for that, head!

Dreams are symbolic

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Dreams talk in a deep symbolic language. If you are constantly dreaming about a particular thing, that has probably nothing to do with that thing. I mean, is not that superficial. They have a deeper meaning and different ways of representing something.

You can have between 4 and 7 dreams a night

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In average, you can dream between 1 and 2 hours in a row per night and in that time, you can have between 4 and 7 dreams. It’s weird because I’ve always thought that I dreamed one thing and that was too long to last all night.

Future dreams

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A lot of people affirm that they dreamed about something that happened after they have dreamed it. As if they were reading the future with their dreams or maybe having some kind of premonition.

If you snore you can’t dream

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Even though there are no studies showing this. A lot of specialists say that anyone who snores can’t dream. They have something that prevent them from relaxing completely and entering the stage of sleep where you dream. That’s why they can’t take it to the other level.

You can’t read or know the time while dreaming

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If you can’t distinguish between being awake and in a dream just try to read the time. You’ll see that if your dreaming, it is impossible. You can’t distinguish time in a dream, because you can’t read it. I can’t imagine how somebody could be in a place where they can’t distinguish real life from dreaming. However, it’s an interesting fact.

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Historical facts everyone should know

History can be boring sometimes but these are basic fact that everyone should know because they made an impact in the world.

Discover how many of these facts you already know and get to know the rest.

First Moon Landing 1969

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon. He and Aldrin walked around for three hours. They did experiments. They picked up bits of moon dirt and rocks.

Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963

In his iconic speech at the Lincoln Memorial for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King urged America to "make real the promises of democracy." King synthesized portions of his earlier speeches to capture both the necessity for change and the potential for hope in American society.

Woodstock Music Festival 1969.

It was a music festival attracting an audience of over 400,000 people, scheduled over three days on a dairy farm in New York from August 15 to 17, 1969, but ultimately ran four days long, ending August 18, 1969.

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo 1976

An association of Argentine mothers whose children "disappeared" during the state terrorism of the military dictatorship, between 1976 and 1983. They organized while trying to learn what had happened to their children, and began to march in 1977 at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in public defiance of the government's state terrorism intended to silence all opposition.

The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914

On the morning of June 28, 1914, a 19-year-old Bosnian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Sophie and Franz Ferdinand, the future heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary (the second-largest empire in Europe) in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster - 1986

It occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).

The Battle of Berlin - 1945

The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II.

The Berlin Wall 1989

The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on 3 October 1990.

Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Battle of France, 1940

Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, but the war seemed far away until May 10, 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. The French government departed Paris on June 10, and the Germans occupied the city on June 14. During the Occupation, the French Government moved to Vichy, and Paris was governed by the German military and by French officials approved by the Germans.

Indian Independence Act 1947

The Indian independence movement encompassed activities and ideas aiming to end the East India Company rule (1757–1858) and the British Indian Empire (1858–1947) in the Indian subcontinent. The movement spanned a total of 190 years (1757–1947).

Death of Marilyn Monroe, August 5, 1962

Marilyn Monroe was found dead on August 5, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home in Los Angeles of a barbiturate overdose. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by 1962.

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

NASA's space shuttle Challenger accident was a devastating tragedy that killed seven astronauts and shocked the world on Jan. 28, 1986.

The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.

Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011

The event began with a powerful earthquake off the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan’s main island, which caused widespread damage on land and initiated a series of large tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas of the country, most notably in the Tōhoku region.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963

Mexico missing students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico 2014

They were among the 43 students who vanished in the city of Iguala one night in September 2014 amid violent, chaotic circumstances laid bare by an international panel of investigators who have been examining the matter for more than a year. The reason for the students’ abduction remains a mystery.

September 11 attacks of 2001

The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

At the order of President Harry S. Truman during the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

Sinking of the RMS Titanic

The sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred on the night of 14 April through to the morning of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

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15 incredible photos that show that the world is completely contaminated

In the world, everybody talks about politics, violence, wars, but few people talk about what could eventually disappear, humanity. Although there are many organizations trying to make “green” activities to save the planet, there are other industries engaged to kill him. If you did not believe that the world is in danger, we share these photos that will make you understand.

The pictures you see here are part of a project lead by a platform known as Global Population Speak Out, which through a collection of images they want to help people understand that we must do something for the environment.