Brain Buster

You can only dream about faces you have already seen. Your brain cannot make up new ones when you're dreamingThe harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely it will happenThere is no word you can write using only the bottom row of the keyboardThe human mind spends 70 per cent of it's time replaying memories and creating scenarios of perfect moments and situationsDon't use a song you like as an alarm to wake up. You'll end up hating itLaughing for 15 minutes benefits the human body the same as sleeping for 2 hours.When you wake up around 2-3 am without any reasons, there's an 80 per cent chance someone is remembering you.After an argument, more than 85 per cent people tend to think of all the clever things they should have said.Listening to music has been shown to lower stress levels, lower blood pressure, increase concentration and even relieve pain.The sentence "A nut for a jar of tuna." is the same when read backwards.A "moment" technically means 90 seconds.Chocolate is about five times more effective than cough syrup when suffering from the common cold.No matter how hard you try, you can never remember how your dream started.There's a 96 per cent chance at this very moment you are waiting for something that will never happen.Emotional pain lasts for 10 to 20 minutes, anything longer is actually self inflicted by over thinking, making things worse.You see yourselves 5 times more attractive in the mirror than you really are, thanks to your brain.99 per cent people get scared when a text reads "Can I ask you a question?"

The writer is a professor at SSN Business School, Chennai