• Question: is it true that dreams only last about a second?

    Asked by Yasmin to Jen on 10 Mar 2015.
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      Jen Machin answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      It could be the case that some dreams are very short, but it’s probably more likely that dreams last between 5 and 35 minutes. There are different phases of sleep, and you dream whilst in a phase called REM (or rapid eye movement) sleep. These REM phases happen several times a night, so in any given night you will probably have several dreams, even if you don’t remember them all in the morning 🙂

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