"When you dream, what do you dream about? Do you dream about falling stars..."

Dreams are awesome. Sometimes we remember them and sometimes we don't and some are so vivid that we can't help but be intrigued to google dream definitions. There are all kinds of sites dedicated to looking up symbols in dreams. I don't usually remember mine, but I have a few that are so striking that I remember them now years and years later. The great thing about dreams is a lot of it is up to the dreamer's unconscious self. I wonder what mine is trying to tell me. I don't really remember them though.

• You cannot snore and dream at the same time
• Adults dream off and on, for a total of about an hour and half to three hours every night
• By the time we die, most of us will have spent a quarter of a century asleep, of which six years or more will have been spent dreaming—and almost all of those dreams are forgotten upon waking up
• The average person has about 1,460 dreams a year
• The longest dreams (30-45 minutes) occur in the morning
• The scientific study of dreams is known as oneirology
• One West African group, the Ashanti, take dreams so seriously that they would allow a husband to take legal action against another man if that man had an erotic dream about his wife
• Dreams of losing teeth or having teeth extracted can signify many things, including fears of helplessness or of some sort of loss in one’s life. Women experience more teeth dreams than men. ( I GET THIS ONE ALL THE TIME! Its SO creepy, in the dream my teeth crumble..yuck)
• Because nightmares were thought to be from menacing spirits, such as witches, folklore suggests placing a knife under the foot of the bed. Evil spirits were thought to be repelled by the steel on the knife
• Falling dreams typically occur at the beginning of the night, in Stage I sleep. These dreams are often accompanied by muscle spasms, called myoclonic jerks, and are common in many mammals
• After the printing press was invented, a dream dictionary called Oneirocritica (The Interpretation of Dreams) by second-century author Artemidorus Daldianus became one of the first best-sellers, comparable only to the Bible in popularity
• Hypnagogic hallucinations are dreamlike images and sounds that may occur just as a person is falling asleep or waking up
•  First-born females tend to have more aggressive characters in their dreams
• Night terrors, or parasomnia, are not the same as nightmares. They are episodes of extreme panic that occur in early sleep and affect from 1%-4% of children between the ages of four and 12. Night terrors are rare in adults and most often occur in those who abuse drugs or alcoholic or have a sleep disorders such as apnea
• Lucid dreaming occurs when there is a state of partial or complete awareness during the dream state. Researchers have begun to explore the possibility of using lucid dreaming for the treatment of nightmares and other therapeutic purposes. An oneironaut is someone who lucidly dreams. The first reference to lucid dreaming is Aristotle’s On Dreams
• When deprived of dreams, individuals become irritable and disoriented, hallucinate, and show signs of psychosis. They will also dream excessively the first chance they get in a phenomenon known as “REM rebound"