AMAZING FACTS ABOUT DREAMS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW Rasha Abu-Hazza 11A

Outline ◦ What happens during sleeping. ◦ You can control your dreams! ◦ Drugs used for dreaming.

You can’t read while dreaming, or tell the time! ◦ If you are unsure whether you are dreaming or not, try reading something. The majority of people are incapable of reading in their dreams. ◦ The same goes for clocks; each time you look at a clock it will tell a different time and the hands on the clock won’t appear to be moving.

Sleepwalking ◦ Sleepwalking is a very rare and potentially dangerous sleep disorder. It is an extreme form of REM sleep disorder, and these people don’t just act out their dreams, but go on real adventures at night.

Lucid Dreaming There is a whole subculture of people practicing what is called lucid or conscious dreaming. Using various techniques, these people have learned to assume control of their dreams and do amazing things like flying, passing through walls, and traveling to different dimensions or even back in time.

Dream drug ◦ There are actually people who like dreaming and dreams so much that they never want to wake up. They want to continue on dreaming even during the day, so they take an illegal and extremely potent hallucinogenic drug called Dimethyltryptamine. It is actually only an isolated and synthetic form of the chemical our brains produce naturally during dreaming.

In your dreams, you only see faces that you already know ◦ It is proven that in dreams, we can only see faces that we have seen in real life before.

Gender differences ◦ Interestingly, 70% of all the characters in a man’s dream are other men, but women’s dream contain an equal amount of women and men. Also men’s dreams contain a lot more aggression.