Fascinating Facts

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
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Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

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Fact Page: You forget 90% of your dreams.
Date Added: 2012-02-29 14:32:29
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Fact Page: It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
Date Added: 2012-02-22 12:29:42
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Kissing, Kiss, Lifetime, Average, People, Love, Romance, Festive, Valentine's Day, Valentine, Interesting, Fascinating, Statistical, Statistic

Fact Page: The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
Date Added: 2012-02-14 03:43:41
Fact Category: People Fact

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Fact Page: Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
Date Added: 2011-11-22 12:19:15
Fact Category: Animal Fact

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Fact Page: The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
Date Added: 2011-10-02 20:45:57
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