Sleeping and dreaming facts

Did You Know?
. One third of our lives are spent sleeping.

. In your lifetime you will spend about six years of it dreaming. That is more than 2100 days spent in a different world.

. Everybody dreams. Just because you don't remember your dreams it does not mean that you didn't dream.

. We dream an average of one or two hours every night and we often have four to seven dreams in one night.

. Five minutes after the end of a dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 99 percent is lost.

. If you are snoring then you cannot be dreaming.

. The word dream stems from the middle English word, 'dreme' which means joy and music.

. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.

. People who give up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

. Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They don't appear in their own dreams until the age of four.