- Adults and babies dream for around 2 hours every night (each dream usually lasts 5-20 mins)
- 95% of dreams are quickly forgotten after you wake up
- Not all dreams are in colour, around 12% of people dream in black and white
- Anxiety and negative emotions are much more common in dreams than positive emotions
- While dreaming our muscles are temporarily paralysed which stops us acting out our dreams
- Common dream themes include: being chased, being attacked, falling, feeling frozen and unable to move, arriving late, flying, and being naked in public!
- Longer dreams occur in the morning hours
- Most dreams are linked to thoughts or events from the previous day or two
- Women have more nightmares than men during their adult lives
- Most people have between 4-6 dreams each night
- Boffins don’t know why we dream or what, if any, purpose they serve!!!