Do You Think Your Pet Dreams? - Tell me whether you believe that your pets dream or not like science s

velma

May 12 2007, 05:42 PM

Hey,

The other day I saw my puppy sleeping and she was running, growling,whining and barking in her sleep. This has been a debate for a long time whether animals dream or not. Some say they do and others say they do not. If you believe in the scientific theory then they may be right but If you see it you may want to change your mind.

I think maybe the reason they make all those sounds is just due to memory. It is like what we do i nour dreams if we concentrate on on one aspect of our day or anything for a long time then most of the times it comes in your dreams. I think oit is sort of the same for them for on days she has had played a lot then she tends to do the above active tasks but if she has eaten a lot then she would imitate sucking on a nipple. Its quite cute and I actually do not care if they dream or not but wanted to know what you guys thought about it

QuickGreen

May 12 2007, 05:45 PM

I definitely think they do.
There's been numerous times where my dog is sleeping and then she starts whine in her sleep. I asked a vet about it and he said that the dog is just dreaming. It's still scary when it happens though because I don't know what's going on. Some people say the dog is having a good dream when they whine, others say it is bad. I'm not sure.

But I definitely think my dog (and all pets I'm sure) dream.

husker

May 12 2007, 05:50 PM

I think some do and some don't. For example, dogs and cats probably do because they are pretty smart (compared to most household animals). A pet ant

or frog, for example, probably don't dream because their mind is incapable of doing it. I don't know a lot about science so my idea is very unlikely, but that's just what came to mind what I saw the question. No need to publish my brilliant idea

velma

May 12 2007, 05:53 PM

Hey,

She must be chasing a bone or playing with another dog. lol. I used to have a great dane and a german shepherd when I was a baby along with 10 cats. When the great dane or german shepherd (Samson and Brute) would sleep One of them would growl or bark and being big dogs their barks were scary.Once Samson(dane) started barking n his sleep and one of my cats, sasha went near him and clawed him reallly hard. It was funny for she hit and looked at him like he had done something wrong and she was punishing him. He looked really confused

wenster

May 12 2007, 06:13 PM

I think they do. I use to have dogs and when I did they would make sounds in their sleep. bark out of nowhere when they're eyes are closed and still sleeping. They're just probably in deep REM sleep. if they do go through that stage. haha. If dogs are sensitive to everything including the supernatural why not be able to dream too.

galexcd

May 12 2007, 08:22 PM

My dog moves her legs in a running motion almost all the time when she sleeps. Alot of yips and stuff like that too. I think they do dream. There would be no reason for them not to. I mean we dream...

Watermonkey

May 13 2007, 12:06 AM

From what I know of neural networks (that's the description for most animals' brains) dreaming and sleeping are both necessary for proper function and to recover from the days input. Even a fictional android in the fictional universe of Star Trek, Data, must sleep and must dream. Any creature, weather man-made or not, that uses a neural net for its brain composition dreams and sleeps according to currently accepted science. The answer to the age-old question, Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep, is most likely, if their CPUs are built in a neural network, yes. Do ants dream? Maybe, I'm not sure if they incorporate neural networks, but I'd imagine they, too, dream...

According to my admittedly rudimentary understanding of dreams, sleep, and neural networks, dreaming is the brains way to take an abstract object that was sensed during the awake time and apply various fantastic contexts to its existence and file those away for the next time the object is encountered. Then, based upon the encounter and observation, the brain can go through, during the next sleep, and reject the fantasies (dream fragments) that don't fit the new information gleaned from the most recent experience.

CinnamorollTK

May 13 2007, 03:26 AM

I once had a dog that often ran in her sleep. I believe that she was dreaming about chasing something.

TypoMage

May 13 2007, 05:00 AM

Well I am not to sure but still I think they do anyways. But then again what really is a dream? My dreams are alway my mind playing tricks on me like I a mtrying to scare myself. I look into darkness and see a angry evil face. When I sleep and I am thinking happy thoughts I dream of bad things, same things go the other way around. It is akward.

Saint_Michael

May 13 2007, 05:51 AM

Yeah I would have to agree that cats and dog dream, especially dog when they do fidgit and what not, I did find some interesting articles about cats and dogs dreaming, http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art46704.asp. What really caught my attention was this part:

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So dogs share at least three sleep disorders with their human counterparts - dreaming (and therefore, possibly nightmares,) narcolepsy and sleep apnea. These disorders, it seems, are more universal than we once thought.

I been hearing things about narcoleptic dogs years ago and along with the fact they sometimes growl as well when they are asleep, of course do we really want to know what they are dreaming about? THe human mind is bizarre enough when it comes to dreams I only could imagine what they are thinking about i.e. they got us on a leash and walking us around hte park to poop and pee on a lawn somewhere

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CrashCore

Apr 24 2008, 09:31 PM

I think they do, but not because I think they have a soul or are like us or anything. Quite the opposite: I think we are more like them. Dreams are just random signals in the brain--the things in your dreams come from images and conversations and fleeting thoughts from the day. If you don't remember seeing or hearing something that was in your dream, it's because it was there but you didn't really see it or hear it, but it is still in your unconscious. Dogs move and growl in their sleep, so of course something is going on in their head, just like us. If you have a brain, you can dream. Dreaming isn't a special thing that humans have that proves we have a soul or that we can reason, and they certainly don't MEAN anything. Freud was crazy, and nothing he ever did was legitimate.
But, yes, dogs dream, and so does anything else with a brain.

pral

Jan 31 2008, 09:34 AM

I don't see why pets wouldn't be able to dream, since they sleep so much. I'm not sure the scientific process on it, but cognitively, they probably just don't get the same level of sophistication of dreams as humans do. Human dreams have so much that variation and randomness, but I would imagine my dogs dreams to be a lot like his primary entertainment during the day: food and play. I could see him dreaming about chasing squirrels and finding things to eat, but I doubt he could remember the last dog he played with at the dog park.

It would be interesting to get a glimpse at what our pets dreams look like; I wonder of any of us appear?

lemonwonder

Dec 9 2007, 11:06 PM

My opinion: of course they do!

They are extremely active in their sleep, if you have ever watched a dog sleeping.

They can wake up scared, happy and just have a range of emotions... that is achieved by dreaming. They also go through the REM (rapid eye movement) stage which is where dreaming is. If you look, you can see their eyes moving at some points in their sleep. This is where their eyes are actually moving in their sleep!

bishoujo

Nov 8 2007, 04:41 AM

I believe even my hamsters dream too. I've seen them moving their limbs a lot when they sleep.

Thyta

Nov 8 2007, 04:38 AM

I would have to say my dog dreams. Here are my reasons:

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1) Once, I was watching TV in the evening with my family. Jack, one of my dogs, was sleeping, as usual. He was lying on the floor next to me against my feet. So he suddenly starts kicking with his hind feet. So, he's kicking me. I'm like, "What the.." Jack's eyes were closed, and he was breathing peacefully. And he was kicking me.

2) Another time, my other dog, Dixie, was sleeping. Again, against my feet. But he didn't kick me. Instead, he just began giving little "woofs". Eyes closed, peaceful breathing, the whole thing. And yet, he was "woofing".

3) Yet another time, my dog Jack was again against my feet. He kicked me, as you have probably guessed. But it was like he was racing, like he was sideways on a racing track. His legs started moving like he was running.. It hurt.

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That's why I think so. And also, dogs are human beings, right? All living things have dreams.. I think. Anyways, that's my vote!

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