8 Things You Didn’t Know About Dreams

Everyone dreams—every single night—and yet we tend to know so little about our dreams. Where do they come from? What do they mean? Can we control them and should we try to interpret them? We spoke to the dream experts to bring you nine surprising facts about dreams. Read before snoozing.




1. Dreaming can help you learn.



If you’re studying for a test or trying to learn a new task, you might consider taking a nap or heading to bed early rather than hovering over a textbook an hour longer. Here’s why: When the brain dreams, it helps you learn and solve problems, say researchers at Harvard Medical School. In a study that appeared in a recent issue of Current Biology, researchers report that dreams are the brain’s way of processing, integrating and understanding new information. To improve the quality of your sleep—and your brain’s ability to learn—avoid noise in the bedroom, such as the TV, which may negatively impact the length and quality of dreams.



2. The most common dream? Your spouse is cheating.



If you’ve ever woken up in a cold sweat after dreaming about your husband’s extramarital escapade with your best friend, you’re not alone, says Lauri Quinn Loewenberg, a dream expert, author and media personality. “The most commonly reported dream is the one where your mate is cheating,” she says. Loewenberg conducted a survey of more than 5,000 people, and found that the infidelity dream is the nightmare that haunts most people—sometimes on a recurring basis. It rarely has anything to do with an actual affair, she explains, but rather the common and universal fear of being wronged or left alone.



3. You can have several—even a dozen—dreams in one night.



It’s not just one dream per night, but rather dozens of them, say experts—you just may not remember them all. “We dream every 90 minutes throughout the night, with each cycle of dreaming being longer than the previous,” explains Loewenberg. “The first dream of the night is about 5 minutes long and the last dream you have before awakening can be 45 minutes to an hour long.” It is estimated that most people have more than 100,000 dreams in a lifetime.



4. You can linger in a dream after waking.



Have you ever woken up from such a beautiful, perfect dream that you wished you could go back to sleep to soak it all up (you know, the dream about George Clooney?)? You can! Just lie still—don’t move a muscle—and you can remain in a semi-dreamlike state for a few minutes. “The best way to remember your dreams is to simply stay put when you wake up,” says Loewenberg. “Remain in the position you woke up in, because that is the position you were dreaming in. When you move your body, you disconnect yourself from the dream you were just in seconds ago.”



5. Even bizarre dreams can be interpreted.



While it can be hard to believe that an oddball dream about your mother, a circus and a snowstorm can have any bearing on real life, there may be symbolism and potential meaning to be mined in every dream—you just have to look for it, says Harvard-trained psychotherapist Jeffrey Sumber. "The meaning of our dreams oftentimes relates to things we are needing to understand about ourselves and the world around us,” he says. Instead of shrugging off strange dreams, think about how they make you feel. “We tend to dismiss these dreams due to the strange components, yet it is the feeling we have in these dreams that matters most,” he explains. “Sometimes the circus and the snowstorm are just fillers that allow us to process the range of emotions we feel about our mother and give us the necessary distraction so we can actually experience that spectrum of emotion.”



6. Recurring dreams may be your mind’s way of telling you something.



Do you have the same nightmare over and over again? Loewenberg suggests looking for underlying messages in recurring dreams so that you can rid yourself of them. For example, a common recurring nightmare people have involves losing or cracking their teeth. For this dream, she recommends that people think about what your teeth and your mouth represent. “To the dreaming mind, your teeth, as well as any part of your mouth, are symbolic of your words,” she says. “Paying attention to your teeth dreams helps you to monitor and improve the way you communicate.”



7. You can control your dreams.



The premise of the new movie Inception is that people can take the reins of their dreams and make them what they want them to be. But it may not just be a Hollywood fantasy. According to the results of a new survey of 3,000 people, dream control, or “lucid dreaming” may be a real thing. In fact, 64.9 percent of participants reported being aware they were dreaming within a dream, and 34 percent said they can sometimes control what happens in their dreams. Taking charge of the content of your dreams isn’t a skill everyone has, but it can be developed, says Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, a dream researcher and visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkley, California. The technique is particularly useful for people who suffer from recurring nightmares, he says. Dr. Bulkeley suggests giving yourself a pep talk of sorts before you go to sleep by saying: “If I have that dream again, I’m going to try to remember that’s it’s only a dream, and be aware of that.” When you learn to be aware that you are dreaming—within a dream—you not only have the power to steer yourself away from the monster and into the arms of Brad Pitt, for instance, but you train your mind to avoid nightmares in the first place. “Lucid dreaming enhances your ability to learn from the dream state,” says Dr. Bulkeley.



8. You don’t have to be asleep to dream.



Turns out, you can dream at your desk at work, in the car, even at your kid’s soccer game. Wakeful dreaming—not to be confused with daydreaming—is real and somewhat easy to do, says Dr. Bulkeley; it just involves tapping into your active imagination. The first step is to think about a recent dream you had (preferably a good one!). “Find a quiet contemplative place and bring a dream that you remember back into your waking awareness and let it unfold,” he says. “Let the dream re-energize.” Wakeful dreaming can be used as a relaxation tool, but Dr. Bulkeley says it can also help your mind process a puzzling dream. “It creates a more fluid interaction between unconscious parts of the mind and wakeful parts of the mind,” he says.

the takeaway for lunch

In the name of God


"We are looking for some people to attend in our new film as an actor , would you like to join us?"

Please imagine this question is asked from a lot of people specially young men or women . what do you think about their answers? Certainly all of answers are positive without talking about kind of film and salary and not having anything about the skill of actor . Why do they accept it with any condition ? yes, you are thinking right ,they want to be famous people .they think a person is successful in the movies who is beautiful or handsome and it isn't necessary to work hard or learn a lot of things.

Now , imagine that question is asked from an actor . first he/she wants to know about the director and other actors and story of film . finally he/she demands a special fee because she/he know that she/he has to go out of city or stay awake a few night or repeat an action several times and be injured in a scene of film and has to be left her/his job for long time and might not able to earn any money.

he/she should look at these problems then he/she 'll set her/his fee and it is usually a high salary and I think that there are a few actors who can contract with a special fee and the rest can't do it .

It is better to remind you that most of actors don't have good family and end of life Specially in our country.

Finally I think acting is a difficult job according to the salary they earn .

Best regard

text of music

I got ice in my veins,

blood in my eye,

all of yah are haters

but that ain't a surprise

seen nights full of pain

days of the same

you keep the sunshine

save me the rain

I search but never find

Hurt but never cry, i work and forever try

But I’m cursed so never mine

And its worse but better times

Seems further and beyond

The top gets higher the more that I climb

The spot gets smaller and I get bigger

Trina get me where I fit in

No room for a n-gga but soon for a n-gga it be on mutherf-cker cause

All this bullsh-t have made me strong, mutherf-cker



[Chorus]



So I pick the world up and im a drop it on your f-ckin head

Yeah, bitch ima pick the World up and I’ma drop it on your f-ckin head

Yeah, and I can die no rebirth now mutherf-cker

Hop up in my spaceship and leave earth motherfucker

I’m gone, mutherf-cker, I’m gone



[Lil Wayne Verse 2]



I know what they don’t want tell you

Just hope your heaven sent and ya hell proof

I’ll wake up in the World and cut the lights off

And confidence is a stain they cant wipe off

Uh, my word is my pride

But wisdom is bleak and that’s a word from the wise

Served to survive, murder and bribe

And when it got too heavy i put my burdens aside.



So I could pick the world up and I’ma drop it on your f*ckin’ head

Bitch, I’ma pick the world up and I’ma drop it on your f*ckin’ head

And I could die now, Rebirth motherf*cker

Hop up in my spaceship and leave Earth, motherf*cker

I’m gone

Motherf*cker, I’m gone (I’m gone)



Eminem:



It hurts but I never show

Its pain you’ll never know

If only you can see just how lonely and how cold

And frostbit I’ve become

My back’s against the wall

When push come to shove

I just stand up and scream f-ck em all

Man it feels like these walls are closing in, this roof is caving in,

Its time to raise it then

Your days are numbered like pages in my book of rhymes got em cookem boy

This crooked mind of mine got em all shook and scared to look in my eyes,

I stole that f-ckin clock, i took the time and i came up from behind

And pretty much snuck up and butt f-cked this game up

Better be careful when you bring my name up f-ck this fame

That aint what i came to claim, but the game aint gonna be the same

On the day that i leave it

I swear one way or another I’m make these f-ckin haters believe it,

I swear to God wont spear the rod, I’m a man of my word

So your f-ckin heads better nod

I’m going to f-ck around in this bitch and roast everybody

Sleep on me that pillow is where your head will lie, permanently bitch it’s beddy-bye,

This world is my easter egg, yeah, prepare to die’

lyrics courtesy of killerhiphop.com

My head is swoll

My confidence is up

This stage is my pedestal

I’m unstoppable the incredible hulk

Your trapped in my medicine ball

I can run circles around you so fast your f-ckin head will spin dog,

I’ll split your cabbage and your lettuce and olives, I’ll f-ckin



Pick the world up and I’ma drop it on your f*ckin’ head

Bitch, I’ma pick the world up and I’ma drop it on your f*ckin’ head

And I could die now, Rebirth motherf*cker

Hop up in my spaceship and leave Earth, motherf*cker

I’m gone

Motherf*cker, I’m gone (I’m gone)

I hope that our rope 'll be the best one .

In the name of God


Why do we have to keep fasting in the special month ?

what benefits do we get from it?

There is an answer for these questions, in addition to my reply at the class , it is one of God's command in Islam such as prayer. Every body has accepted Islam , who has to follow all it's rules, he can't do some rules or do not do the rest of them for any reason , for example ,doing of some rules are very hard , so , he doesn't want to do them. It is wrong.

He should do all of rules carefully .

Maybe , there is other question that why do we have to have a religion ? why did we choose the Islam? Is it the best religion in the world? Does it help us to get the best job or home or life ? can we compare the poor afghan people with the rich European or on the country a rich sheikh in UAE with a sick African according with their religion?

Certainly there isn't any relationship between them.

I think that it is quite wrong if we want to find the result of religion in our affluence because we can't get any thing apparently , also , I believe that it effects us .

If someone haven't accepted any religion ,he is like a balloon that it doesn't have a rope and doesn't connect any where , so it moves in the sky by weak wind and no one know where it is.

Isn't it important which rope and where ?

It is very important that there is a rope and it helps to hold it in against wind .

But about" which religion is the best one?" I can't answer it because I haven't studied other religion . but it is an aid to reach to my God who always helps me when ever I need.

I hope that our rope 'll be the best one .

Thank you for spending your time to read my text

get a better memory

In the name of god


My mind can't do very well, I can remember the name of some people or places hardly . This is worse than this that I can't memorize my lesson even when I study many time , I don't know how I can solve this problem subject , unfortunately , I haven't been successful. But these are two reasons:

First those aren't practical . Second , I don't have good determination.

Any way , I have to find a good way

They are saying that we should do the following practices if we want to have a good memory.

1) Don't eat any sweetness or cookies , in other words, anything that contain sugar

2) Do exercise every other day

3) Eat a lot of fruit and vegetable

4) Try to use boiled food and sea food

5) Avoid to eat fried food

What do you say about these suggestions? Can you do them? Are they hard to do ? How can we do that easily?

By the way , how is your mind? Do you have any problem in memorizing your job? Do you have a plan for your future? I think that you should do some jobs before your age become mine. Of course, I try to do them but I don't have energy.

Oh, my god , I have forgotten to say you that you can do puzzle or play the chess . They help to keep active your mind. I am ready to play chess with you and certainly I'll win what do you think? How are you ?

Best regard

what do you say about these phrases?

- Today we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;


-we have more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less judgment;

-We have more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

-We spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get to angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too often, and pray too seldom.

-We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too little and lie too often.

-We‘ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.

-We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints

-We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

-We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

-We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice;

-we write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less.

-We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice;

-We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but lower morals.

-We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies, but have less communication.

-We are long on quantity, but short on quality.

-These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and short character; steep profits and shallow relationships.

-More leisure and less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition; two incomes, but more divorce; fancier houses, but broken homes.

-That’s why I propose, that as of today, you do not keep anything for a special occasion, because every day that you live is a special occasion.

-Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.

-Spend more time with your family and friends, eat your favorite foods, and visit the places you love.

-Life is a chain of moment of enjoyment, not only about survival.

-Use your crystal goblets. Do not save your best perfume, and use it every time you feel you want it.

-Remove from your vocabulary phrases like “one of these days” and “someday”. Let’s write that letter we thought of writing “one of these days”.

-Let’s tell our families and friends how much we love them. Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life.

-Every day, every hour, and every minute is special. And you don’t know if it will be your last.

-If you’re too busy to take the time to send this message to someone you love, and you tell yourself you will send it “one of these days “. Just think…”One of these days “, you may not be here to send it!

I want to talk about the movie that I haven't seen it up to now , but I have tried to find some information about it from internet , unfortunately , I couldn't find the useful information , so, I am going to talk about a prediction that the 2012 movie is made according it . It says us that the world will be over at 22th December 2012 . we have a belief in our religion that the world will finish on a day and that day is called , "resurrection " but no body doesn't know about the date and time of day. I think this is a preference for us because we can continue our life without any worry and we don't have to count the days and we have to be ready to answer our activity and we try to be on useful person.