Dreams are beneficial and they have many purposes Do you dream Well everyone dreams whether they're happy scary or sad You actually have about four dreams each night even though you don't dream the whole time you are sleeping The first stage of sleep is the hypnagogic stage During this state you begin to dose off but you can be easily disturbed You aren't dreaming during this stage or the next In the second stage you become less aware of the world than before The next stage you enter is NREM non rapid eye movement You repeat these stages along with REM sleep about 4 times each night The first time you experience NREM each night it lasts about 90 min and in it you are difficult to wake REM sleep is the last stage in which you experience the phenomenon known as dreaming REM stands for rapid eye movement During this stage your eyes move around but your eyelids are still closed The brain is fully active during this stage This stage grows longer as you repeat the stages These are all the stages of sleep that you experience but there is a variation of the types of dreams you have We all know of daydreams In fact an average person daydreams about 70 120 minutes each day