1) Dreaming occurs primarily in the rapid eye movement stage of sleep.
2) People can realize they are dreaming and control their dreams. This is called lucid dreaming.
3) Concentrating on dreams before sleep can lead to manipulation of dreams. One can initiate lucid dreaming or simply dictate the subject about which he or she will dream.
4) It is said that a person will never see a character in a dream that he or she has never seen before in waking life.
5) Scientists know that animals, mammals at the very least, can dream. They exhibit the same observable dream indicators as humans.
6) It is easier to remember a dream if sleep is interrupted during the dream.
7) While it seems difficult to climax without physical stimulation while awake, it is possible to have a dream that leads to orgasm.
8) Pain, pleasure, bodily functions and noise can be experienced in reality and meshed into a dream while sleeping.
9) It is possible to wake from a dream and be unable to move. This is the residual effect of the body's mechanism to keep one from acting out dreams while sleeping.
10) Most of everything a person dreams will eventually or immediately be forgotten.
11) It is possible to have the same dream more than once.
12) Dreams consist of images, colors, feelings, events and even sounds.
13) Some people will physically or vocally react to their dreams while they are asleep.
14) Some medical conditions, medication and psychological disorders can affect the content, frequency and vividness of a person's dreams.
15) People who are trying to stop doing something such as eating chocolate may have dreams that they do that very thing. It produces feelings of guilt. expands into areas of personal application that are virtually endless.