12 AMAZING FACTS OF YOUR BRAIN

AMAZING FACTS OF YOUR BRAIN

1. COLOR OR BLACK AND WHITE - SOME PEOPLE (ABOUT 12%) DREAM ONLY IN BLACK AND WHITE WHILE OTHERS DREAM IN COLOR
   
2. IF YOUR BRAIN LOSES BLOOD FOR 8 TO 10 SECONDS, YOU WILL LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS.
   
   
3. SPEED OF THE BRAIN - INFORMATION CAN BE PROCESSED AS SLOWLY AS 0.5 METERS/SEC OR AS FAST AS 120 METERS/SEC (ABOUT 268 MILES/HR).
   
4. BRAIN OF ALBERT EINSTEIN - EINSTEIN’S BRAIN WAS SIMILAR IN SIZE TO OTHER HUMANS EXCEPT IN THE REGION THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MATH AND SPATIAL PERCEPTION. IN THAT REGION, HIS BRAIN WAS 35% WIDER THAN AVERAGE.
   
5. THE NEXT TIME YOU GET A FEVER, KEEP IN MIND THAT THE HIGHEST HUMAN BODY TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED WAS 115.7 DEGREES–AND THE MAN SURVIVED.
   
6. NEW CONNECTIONS ARE ESTABLISHED EVERY TIME YOU RECALL A MEMORY OR HAVE A NEW THOUGHT.
   
7. ANOMIA IS THE TECHNICAL WORD FOR TIP-OF-THE-TONGUE SYNDROME WHEN YOU CAN ALMOST REMEMBER A WORD, BUT IT JUST WON’T QUITE COME TO YOU.
   
8. MOST PEOPLE DREAM FOR ABOUT 1-2 HOURS A NIGHT AND HAVE AN AVERAGE OF 4-7 DREAMS EACH NIGHT.
   
   
9. BLIND PEOPLE ALSO DREAM. DREAMS ARE MORE THAN JUST VISUAL IMAGES, AND BLIND PEOPLE DO DREAM. WHETHER OR NOT THEY DREAM IN PICTURES DEPENDS ON IF THEY WERE BORN BLIND OR LOST THEIR VISION LATER
   
10. WHILE YOU SLEEP, YOUR BODY PRODUCES A HORMONE THAT MAY PREVENT YOU FROM ACTING OUT YOUR DREAMS, LEAVING YOU VIRTUALLY PARALYSED.
    
    
11. DREAM SHOWINGS - JAPANESE RESEARCHERS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED A TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN PUT THOUGHTS ON A SCREEN AND MAY SOON BE ABLE TO SCREEN PEOPLE’S DREAMS.
    
12. ARISTOTLE. ARISTOTLE MISTAKENLY THOUGHT THAT THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE IN THE HEART.