and there’s no reason to think animals are any different," she states.
“Humans dream about the same things they’re interested in by day, though more visually and less logically. Harvard Medical School Psychologist Deirdre Barrett agrees in a recent People magazine article. The dream pattern in dogs seems to be very similar to the dream pattern in humans." "Pointers will point at dream birds and Dobermans will chase dream burglars. "What we've basically found is that dogs dream doggy things," concludes Coren, who believes dogs also have nightmares. And once that function is medically deactivated, dogs do try to get up and (seemingly) act out their dreams.
How do we know? In both humans and dogs, our brains disable our large muscles during sleep to keep us from acting out our dreams. Wilson theorizes dreams during non-REM sleep may allow the brain to categorize the day's activities, while REM dreams may encourage the brain to explore without consequence - and the same may be true in canines. The structure of dogs’ brains is similar to that of humans, and in both mammals the brain patterns common to the two stages may play an important part in learning and remembering, according to MIT cognitive scientist Matthew Wilson. In humans, both REM and non-REM sleep can foster dreams - and scientists believe the same is true in dogs.
He pointed to a study involving the measurement of electrical activity in dogs’ brains, which concluded canines spend 44 percent of their time alert, 23 percent in non-REM or slow-wave sleep, 21 percent drowsy and 12 percent in REM sleep. The sleep patterns of canines often mimic those of humans, according to psychology professor Stanley Coren, author of "Do Dogs Dream? Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know.” Like their owners, dogs progress through different stages of sleep including rapid-eye-movement (REM) and non-REM stages, Coren states. Of course, no one can state definitively what goes on in dogs’ minds, but research indicates dogs likely dream just as much as humans, and the subjects of their dreams are probably similar - activities they pursue in the normal course of a day.
And does that remind you of how certain people flinch and flounder once they’ve descended into la-la land?
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