Petrina And Joe’s Morning Show Blog

Except I can’t remember most of it.  Don’t you just hate it when you’re in the middle of a GOOD dream and you remember telling yourself you need to remember  this but you don’t….

Here’s some interesting facts about Dreams.

Blind People Dream — People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.

You Forget 90% of your Dreams — Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

Everybody Dreams — Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women.

We Only Dream of What We Know — Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts, but did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces? They are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember.

Not Everyone Dreams in Color — A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color.

Dreams are not about what they are about — If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language.

Quitters have more vivid dreams — People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience.

External Stimuli Invade our Dreams — This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream.

You are paralyzed while you sleep — Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. According to a Wikipedia article on dreaming, “Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.”

Toddlers do not dream about themselves until around the age of 3 — From the same age, children typically have many more nightmares than adults do until age 7 or 8.

Speaking of dreams, I am now one and half weeks away from submission day for my script for the MDA/NBDCS First Time Writers Initiative. Thanks PakHitam for asking about my book.  I’ve actually written it a long ago, it’s now in the hands of my very talented illustrators…I just need to put it together and work on it further…Wish me luck!

 A fun fart joke.

A woman goes into an outdoor outfitter store to buy a rod and reel for her grandson’s birthday. She doesn’t know which one to get so she just grabs one and goes over to the counter. An employee is standing there wearing dark shades. She says, “Excuse me, sir, can you tell me anything about this rod and reel?” He says, “Ma’am, I’m completely blind; but if you’ll drop it on the counter, I can tell you everything from the sound it makes.” She doesn’t believe him but drops it on the counter anyway. He says, “That’s a six-foot Shakespeare graphite rod with a Zebco 404 reel and 10lb test line. It’s a good all around combination; and it’s on sale this week for only $42.” She says, “It’s amazing that you can tell all that just by the sound of it dropping on the counter. I’ll take it!” As she opens her purse, her credit card drops on the floor. “Oh, that sounds like a Master Card,” he says. She bends down to pick it up and accidentally breaks wind. At first she’s really embarrassed, but then realizes there’s no way the blind clerk could tell it was she who tooted. Being blind, he wouldn’t know that she was the only person around. The man rings up the sale and says, “That’ll be $53 please.” The woman is to tally confused by this and asks, “Didn’t you tell me the rod and reel were on sale for $42? How did you get $53?” He replies, “Yes, Ma’am. The rod and reel is $42, but the duck call is $11.”

These people have real jobs and these are their real (ridiculous) names. But then again who am I to talk with a name like KOW!!

Not saying you should be be as brazen (or bald) as these farnee fellas (The Married Men that is), but an example nonetheless.  Click here to see their sample video entry  for the Unexpected Australia Contest…

And here’s a little puzzle for you to solve….

You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus: 

1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.

2. An old friend who once saved your life.

3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car? The solution here.

Keep those comments coming in!

And here’s one for the road… (Remember smoking is BAD for you and we are NOT promoting it in any way – but check out how they used to advertise a long, long, long time ago).