1. EVERYBODY dreams, every night. If you don't remember dreaming you simply forgot. [except in cases of extreme psychological disorder]

2. On average you have 4-7 dreams a night. Each dream gets longer, the first being a few seconds and the last around an hour. You are most likely to remember the last one.

3. Blind people dream! If you become blind after birth, you dream in images. If you're born blind you dream smell, touch, sound and emotions.

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

5.When you're snoring you're not dreaming.

6. 5 minutes after the end of the dream, half of the content is forgotten. After 10 minutes, 90% is forgotten.

7. Not everybody dreams in colour. Around 12% of sighted people dream solely in black and white

8. Your body is virtually paralyzed when you sleep-Probably to prevent yourself from acting out your dreams. "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."

9. Stimuli outside your dreams can invade them-This is where a sound, for example, from reality is heard and incorporated into your dream. Another example is being thirsy and continuously drinking in your dream until you awaken and drink.

10. Around 40% of children's dreams are nightmares.

1. You burn more calories sleeping than watching television.

12. Your mind doesn't make up people in your dreams, they're people you've seen before but might not remember.

13. When you're awaken during REM [rapid eye movement] sleep, you're more likely to remember your dream then if you were to sleep through the night.

14. One third of our life is spent sleeping, about 6 years is spent dreaming.

15. Nobody knows for certain why we dream, but there are many theories including:
-Dreams are some kind of wish fulfillment. [they allow you to experience your innermost desires]
-Dreams are a safety valve.[they provide a safe way to release feelings that can't be expressed in waking life]
-Dreams protect sleep.[If a loud noise starts to awaken you, you just dream about the noise instead of waking up]
-Dreams mean nothing at all.