10 Facts about dreams

1. When you dream, your body is paralyzed.
2. The average person has between 1,460 and 2,190 dreams an year.
3. You can teach yourself to control your dreams. The method is called "lucid dreaming".
4. The origin of the phrase "Pipe Dream" was referring to ideas thought up while smoking opium.
5. The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life!
6. A device called the REM Dreamer lets you control your dreams!
7. Blind People also Dream. People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
8. 12% of people dream in black and white.
9. You forget 90 % of your dreams. Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
10. The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative emotions are more common than positive ones.