Philosophy

According to Nietzsche, "In the ages of the rude beginning of culture, man believed that he was discovering a second real world in dream, and here is the origin of all metaphysics. Without dreams, mankind would never have had occasion to invent such a division of the world. The parting of soul and body goes also with this way of interpreting dreams; likewise, the idea of a soul's apparitional body: whence all belief in ghosts, and apparently, too, in gods."

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Fun facts

• People who’ve been blind since their birth dream

       that are formed from their other senses

• When someone is snoring they’re not dreaming

• Some animals like elephants sleep standing

       during non-REM sleep but lie down for REM sleep

• On an average lifetime, a person dreams for 6 years

       in total

• Negative emotion is more common in dreams

       not everyone dreams in color, those who grew up

       with black and white televisions mostly dream in that

       color, another experiment showed that when someone

       sleeps with red-tinted glasses they see more the color

       red than a person who doesn’t