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    1. 12-15-2003 02:59 AM #1
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      Do you think animals dream?

      As I look at my sleeping cat, I can only wonder if she is dreaming. I asked her if she was dreaming but is just looked up at me and yawned.

      What would animals dream about if they indeed did dream? Is dreaming unique only to us? What do you guys think?
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    2. 12-15-2003 03:03 AM #2
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      An interesting page:

      http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/dreaming.html
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    3. 12-15-2003 03:08 AM #3
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      Well... that answers that question.

      Thank you
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    4. 12-15-2003 03:13 AM #4
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      Hehehe, I love being helpful.
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    5. 12-15-2003 07:28 PM #5
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      Nice article =)

      You know whales and dolphins, because they are consious breathers only sleep with half their brain at a time, one part stays active and alert while the other goes into a meditative trance, you can see them floating on the surface of the water, breathing in slow intervals. I bet they are lucid dreamers....
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    6. 12-15-2003 10:47 PM #6
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      I bet they use walking as a reality check...
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    7. 12-16-2003 04:31 AM #7
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      No need to go all the way to MIT to find out animals dreams. When we dream, our body is paralyzed so that we don't act out our dreams. This was shown, in part, by an old study. The brains of cats were surgically impaired so that they could not paralyze their dreams while they slept. What happened? The cats acted out their dreams, chasing things and eating hairballs etc. So we know at least mammals sleep.
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    8. 12-16-2003 04:41 AM #8
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      If animals don't dream, my dog has seizures while he's sleeping.
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    9. 12-16-2003 09:15 AM #9
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      Mammals dream, we know from studies of REM sleep... We also found that the more helpless a mammal is at birth, the longer its REM cycles... The winner being the platypus with 8 hours of REM sleep a night... The loser being whales and dolphins, with little or no REM sleep... sux2bthem... But imagine what you could do with 8 full hours of lucid dreaming every night...
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