What do other animals dream?

[Technodreamer]

animals…(at their waking hours).

So how many is that?! Lol, Lucky guys.

I’m really scarred to wake my cat. His old and if he wakes with a jump I might startle him to much. However my younger cat seems to wake up as soon as I go near him.

I bet that if dolphins could walk, they would be as developed in inteligents as humas.

[The_Golden_King_of_A (The Golden King of Avalon)]

Ya I know Jeff. Well another thing to add to my list of thing to do in a Ld. Ha.

[Helcorax]

From the book “Get a Grip on Dreams”:

“When animals and humans dream in REM sleep they lose all muscle tone. They are in effect paralyzed. But a French scientist called Michael Jouvet found a means to turn this paralysis off in a cat. The cat, while still dreaming, got up and seemingly chased a dream bird and caught and started to eat it. The cat was acting out its dream.”

[whispa]

I was thinking about this the other day while watching my cat sleeping and wondered as they sleep more hours than us - more chance of lucid dreams

[Jeff]

For lucid dreams you need self reflection, and i dont think a cat has enough of that…maybe a dolphin?

Jeff

[Gov]

Michel Jouvet, a neurophysiologist, did experiments on cats involving disconnecting the part of the brain which prohibits them from moving when asleep.

In the research the cats chased imagined mice, hissed at other cats and acted in every way a cat is expected to.
But even cats who had never left their homes, who had never caught live animals, dreamt of the same things.

So can we deprive an animal of it’s instinct?

[WonderDog]

I’ve watched my dog do the running motion, growl, wag her tail, make muffled bark sounds and even eat (moving her mouth and tounge as though she’s eating) in her sleep.
Alot of people say dogs dont dream at all but I dont know what they have decided to base that theory on…

[Jeff]

Good question Gov

Wonderdog as far as i can find in my books, sleep scientist believe dogs and cats have not only rem sleep but actually dream wihle they are in rem sleep.

Jeff

[whispa]

I’ve seen my cat while shes asleep, moving her mouth like shes eating

[stranger]

@Jack

Ive just read more about it in one of our sciencific magazines.
It says that animals which are born helpless and need more parental guidance spend much more time in REM.The example is australian platypous with 8 hrs of REM.On the other side of a scale is a dolphin -its ready to live on its own almost from the moment of birth.
It is to say that REM gives us the possibility of training before we are ready to do so in real life.Evolution took care also for that.
But it might be just one of the reasons,at least its the one we can somehow sciencifically prove unlike all the other theories.

Hi everyone, I think Jack is talking some veyr good sense here.
It is true that the more helpless an animal is (even humans), the more he will dream. WHY? Because dreams HELP us with reality.
So even for us humans, dreams can help us learn things for real life too.
There was a study done on a group of people who have never rode a bicycle before. Half of them were told to think of bicycles and dream about them. They did. Then they gave them all bikes, the ones who had dreamt about riding bicycles actually could learn how to ride one a lot quicker than the others who had never dreamt of them.

-stranger