Most people nowadays over the age of 10 have 4 to 6 dreams every night. Those numbers times 365 days in one year makes for between 1,460 and 2,190 dreams every year. We dream during our REM period which means that when we have Rapid Eye Movement in our sleep which can range anywhere from 5 minutes to hald an hour long. In the course of one night this happens multiple times.
You might be thinking, I don't remember having 4 different dreams in one night, and I certainly don't remember having 1,000 dreams last year. The fact of the matter is that you are forgetting between 95% to 99% of all the dreams you have. That may seem kind of high, but most of your dreams don't really interest you enough to make you want to remember them.
Dreams don't require enough concentration to force you to remember them. In that sense, they are similar to other routine actions you do throughout the day like driving or tying your shoes. You don't remember most of the time you do those things either. You can also teach yourself to control your dreams. That method is called "lucid dreaming", which means that you are aware of the fact that you're dreaming. That way you have the freedom to choose how your dreams go. In most cases people turn nightmares into good dreams or fly.





