Are animals dreaming?

Are animals dreaming?

Dreaming ANIMALS

From a short time ago we saw a video spread on the social media, of a sleeping dog and suddenly it starts rubbing his hands and feet as if he is running fast while in his dream, and after that he stands and collides with the wall and then wakes up.

The video was so nice that it got millions of views, and of course many sarcastic comments came from him, and there are people who actually told him which animals they have the same behavior.

Here many questions began. Does this mean that animals dream as we humans are? And if she dreams, what is she dreaming about?

There are some people who saw this behavior as a type of abuse, it is possible that that dog has a certain situation, and that the dog was not dreaming because animals do not have the ability to imagine pictures and evoke unreal scenes

Let's leave opinions aside and try to answer questions.

But in order to be able to answer these difficult questions, we must basically know what happens in dreams?

• Because in order for the object to dream, it must reach the "Rem Sleeping", in which sometimes an imbalance occurs and the body is freed from sleep paralysis (a small imbalance at the level of the brain that leads the organism to walk, speak, and interact with the dream as if it were reality)
• Or the second form of the so-called SLEEP PARALYSIS is located in which the object is paralyzed but somewhat aware that it is awake.

Go back to the question, do animals go through REM?

Dr. GEROME SIEGEL, a researcher at a California university, said in one of his researches that almost all mammals go through a rem sleeping phase and differ according to animals. There are many mammals that sleep deeply and there are animals that sleep deeper than humans, but there are other animals such as the cow that sleeps a lot and are standing if She does not pass that stage, she must be lying down to pass by.

All mammals go through that stage except for the dolphin, because the dolphin dear reader has a wonderful sleep method, because if he sleeps deeply it can drown, because not like fish breathe in the water with nostrils, he must breathe from the air,

In order to sleep, he closes the left eye for half an hour. The right part of the brain sleeps, then he turns the process over with the right eye.

• We turn to the category of birds, which are two types: a species living inside flocks, such as singer birds (CANARY; COMMION NIGHTINGALE ....). This type sleeps deeply through the stage of rem sleeping.
  

• The second type, which is lonely and highly mobile, such as (MALLARD ...), sleeps close to sleep with a dolphin, so as not to be prey
  

• As for reptiles, they are the most sleepable animals that sleep remotely.

Now we know that animals are going through a sleeping rem phase, but does that mean that animals dream?

In order to make sure we must monitor the brain of animals while they are sleeping, and indeed we have discovered a noticeable activity in the brain (as if the animal when asleep, as if awake or as if interacting with real situations completely).

In one of the experiments, Dr. MATTEW A. WILSON and Dr. KENWAY LOUIE .

placed mice in a maze, which the mice had to cross to reach the piece of cheese, and monitored the signal of some areas in the brain of those mice responsible for creating and storing memories, after the mice crossed that maze, they were placed in Another maze, but those mice could not pass the second maze, so they let the mice sleep and monitored the signals of the rat's brain as they slept, and they found the brain signal working in the same way as if looking for a solution to the new maze.

And experiments remained on this aspect in the same formula, until a French scientist named MECHILE JOUVET came up and put forward a clever idea in the year 1965

Indeed, they found that when these animals were asleep, they raised their heads as if they were targeting prey, making sounds, and walking as if they were reacting to an event that only they see.

It seems that we have enough evidence to prove that the animals dream, and the second question remains, do animals need dreams and sleep in order to forget, for example?

The strange thing is that most animals that have a long memory have problems reaching rem sleeping, for example the crow does not pass rem sleeping, as does the dolphin.

The elephant sleeps only two hours a day and goes through a rem sleeping phase once every four days, and the horse sleeps 95% of its time while it is standing, that is, it passes through rem sleeping for a very short time.

so it is possible to say that animals do not need dreams to be forgotten, but scientists expect that offering lived experiences on the brain helps animals preserve the basics like children sleep a lot to memorize and accommodate.

Studying dreams, we learned about the effect of how the brain works.