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You standing alone in the dark, stormy night and your heart is pumping like a drum. A murderer is following you in a black coat and you are his next victim. When your body is shivering and you hardly can walk, you still want to run for your life. Then suddenly…you wake up.

Sounds familiar?

This is one of the most common dreams seen all over the world. Dreams and questions associated with it have always been a mystery from the beginning. Why do we dream? What do they mean? The list of questions is long, but the answers are blurred.

We see faces and objects in our dreams. But those who are blind by birth know nothing about images and colors. Yet, they see auditory dreams. They listen to sound, recognize odor, and feel vibrations in their dreams. Those who become blind later in life, though, see images. Moreover, a Danish study shows that blind people have more nightmares than sighted people.

We spend nearly one-third of our life asleep, and unfortunately we can't remember most of it. About 95% of our dreams are forgotten as we get out of bed. Though we are most likely to remember our dreams if awakened out of REM sleep as compared to full night sleep.

We see strange faces in our dreams. About 48% of people in our dreams are unknown to us. But are they really strange and that our brain is creating those faces? No, they are real faces and we’ve seen those faces somewhere in our life. Maybe the man, who was trying to kill you in your last dream, met you in a grocery store when you were a child.

Though most of us see dreams in color, there is a percentage of people who claim that they dream without colors. They see dreams in black and white. When they are asked, right after awakened from a dream, to select color from a chart, they frequently select soft pastel. A 2008 study at the University of Dundee found that people who watched black and white television during their childhood, are more likely to see dreams in black and white.

Imagine if you could decide where to go, whom to meet, and what to do in your dreams. For some people this imagination is possible and they do it all the time. There is a whole community of people who claim that they have control in dreaming. They use different techniques to learn controlling their dreams and can do unbelievable things like flying, passing through walls, traveling to different dimensions and even back in time. They are lucid dreamers.

Dreams have always been an inspiration for inventors. One dream inspired Madame C.J. Walker to invent hair products that made her the first American female self-made millionaire. Elias Howe invented the sewing machine inspired from one of his dream.

Premonition dreams enable you to see a glimpse of the future Some of the famous premonition dreams are: Abraham Lincoln dreamt of his assassination,19 verified precognitive dreams about the Titanic catastrophe, Mark Twain’s dream of his brother’s death, many of the victims of 9/11 had dreams warning them about the catastrophe.

Some people are addicted to dreams and they create them artificially by using a drug known as DMT (Dimethyltryptamine). In an experiment with this intense psychoactive compound, it was found that some subjects experienced alien abduction, mystical, religious and saw things which was not there.

Despite the fact that most dreams are common, they vary depending on gender. A woman’s dream world is different from a man’s dream world. Women tend to have more frequent nightmares than men, and more likely to remember their dreams as compared to men. When men often dream about aggressive encounters with other men, women more often dream about family and familiar surroundings.