The dream world is full of unknowns and mystery. Not only is it about looking for an interpretation or meaning to our dreams, but we also seek reasons and answers to the infinite questions that arise every night. Have you ever wondered how many dreams you have every night? Because we usually remember only one dream, but we have many more. We respond to your daily dream experiences in our Dream Dictionary.
There are people who say they don’t dream, but it’s not true. Experts claim that we all dream every night even if we don’t remember it. With this statement that seems to be surpassed by most people, a question arises. How many dreams do we have every night? It is clear that we do not remember them all, sometimes we do not remember any and sometimes we remember only one.
But surely it has ever happened to you that you have woken up several times at night with a different dream every time. Or maybe you’ve slept from a pull but wake up with several unconnected stories that you know perfectly that belong to different dreams. And it will also have happened to you that you have felt the terror of a nightmare and later the tranquility of a pleasant dream or the curiosity of another indecipherable dream.
Well, that’s because we dream several times throughout the night. There seems to be agreement that we have an average of four dreams every night, but this statement has nuances. We could say that those four dreams would be the main dreams, those that if we insist, we could remember. But in reality we can have many more than four, some experts talk about twelve dreams per night differentiated between main dreams and secondary dreams.
Secondary dreams would be those that are generated in certain stages of sleep and that would be impossible to remember because they have not generated any memory in our memory. Or because the brain discards them by having an irrelevant content for our inner world.
Thus, we are left with the four dreams of mid night even though we do not remember any or remember the last one. Or the one who wakes us up in the middle of the night. But we have more questions about dreams, than dream curiosity is unstoppable. Do you know when the night dreams more?
To know at what time we dream more, you have to clarify an aspect as important as the sleep cycle. When sleeping we pass through four phases of the dream that are repeated throughout the night. The first three phases are the non -REM phases and the fourth is the famous ReM phase, precisely in which dreams occur.
The duration of the phases is increasing throughout the night. And if the first phase remains it at ninety minutes of sleeping and lasting about ten minutes, the last PHAS can last up to an hour and a half. And we can have about five PHA phases throughout the night.
It will have ever taken you that you will have better remembered those dreams that you have in the last ReM phase, such as when you wake up near the morning and go back to sleep. Well, it is in the REM phases when those dreams that we called mainly occur. Therefore, it does not mean that in other phases of the dream let’s not dream, but are more irrelevant.
Now that we know that we dream during the ReM of the dream and that we have an average of four dreams every night, another question arises. What do we usually dream of? What are the most frequent dreams?
The meaning of dreams sometimes depends on the context, but often it is about universal symbols. They are the dreams that all people have in all parts of the world and that are usually related to emotions. Therefore, almost all people have dreamed of the death of a loved one for the fear of losing it, with childhood scenes for the nostalgia of the past or with the terrible feeling of not being able to move or speak.
All people also have nightmares that teach us to face our fears. And all people dream of animals to understand certain messages that arrive directly from nature. Dreaming of water as an interior cleaning ritual or dreaming of flying as a search for freedom are also very frequent in many parts of the world and in dreamy of all ages.
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