Nose Runs in the Cold
Have you ever wondered why your nose runs, when you go out in the cold? Even if you are perfectly healthy, it never seems to fail.
Your nose is much more than an organ to take in air, when your mouth is closed. It smells and affects the way your food tastes. If your olfactory nerves are injured, your favorite flavor of ice cream might taste exactly like a bite of cardboard.
Your nose also has the important job of keeping you healthy. The nose is a humidifier that warms and cleans the air you breathe, before it gets to your lungs. In short, it catches a lot of the airborne germs, before they can make you sick.
But, when it is really cold, your nose work even harder than normal. Even though you don’t think about it, your sinuses and your nose are constantly secreting mucus, so the nose can do its job. However, when it’s really cold, the blood vessels in your nose dilate, which signals the nose to go into overdrive. Instead of making just enough mucus to keep you healthy, and unobtrusively drain down your throat, your nose and sinuses start making too much. Since it has to go somewhere, and there’s too much to go the normal route, your nose will run, until it gets warm again.
Why People Dream
Amazingly, dreams are not for everyone. Although it may seem like you dream all night, dreaming actually only occurs during the lightest or first stage of sleep. REM sleep, an acronym for rapid eye movement, is the only known time that a person dreams. For some reason, there are a few people that can skip right into a deeper sleep state. But, for the majority, dreaming is a part of every night’s sleep.
In this lighter stage of sleep, the brain seems to rehash things that the dreamer may not have had time to think about during the day. It might be because of a particular worry, something exciting that happened, or something you might not have been aware of at the time. However, the brain took it in, saving it until you relaxed.
Although you are supposedly asleep, you brain is still very much active in REM sleep. Until you reach that deeper stage of rest, all bets are off. You brain can even take normal things that have recently happened, scramble them up, and make up something new for your active mind to ponder. But, don’t let it worry you too much. It is said that much of what you dream, you will never remember by the time you wake up.
In short, no matter how hard you try to change it, your body has some reactions that are on automatic. You can’t stop them. But, they might a little less bothersome, if you know the reasons why?