This thought hit me when i just went into the kitchen a few minutes ago and my little doggy was looking as snug as a bug in a rug asleep as well as wagging her tail. |
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This thought hit me when i just went into the kitchen a few minutes ago and my little doggy was looking as snug as a bug in a rug asleep as well as wagging her tail. |
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Lets all do something mental like steal a traffic cone.
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I think they can. If an animal has the capacity to dream (anyone who's had a dog knows that they dream) has the ability to realize that it's dreaming IMO. I often wonder if that's the reason cats sleep so much... |
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Ruddy hell if me cats can lucid dream better than I can what chance have I got Lol |
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Unless otherwise stated, views expressed in this post are not necessarily representative of the official Dream Views stance. Hell, it's probably not even representative of me.
Although I agree with O'nus > |
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Animals, with the exception of apes are not self aware. It is this extra feedback loop of self awareness that brings intelligence. |
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you must be the change you wish to see in the world...
-gandhi
If I find out somehow my dog CAN lucid dream more than I can I better not catch him shitting on the floor agian! |
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I doubt they can. I mean my cat dosen't sit and ponder the meaning of life or anything intelligent. You can just wave something in front of it and it's like "ooh, yay!" and tries to eat it. But I guess they could, I can't exactly ask it. |
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I think not, would take a very conscious self awareness to have a lucid dream! |
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Your Dreams are Truly Yours!
What do you mean animals don't have self awareness? It only needs to know its alive to have self awareness. The fact that they know enough to avoid getting hurt or killed is proof enough. I don't know where you get that ape thing from either. Apes are as "stupid" as any other animal out there. |
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I guess it boils down to the question "do animals understand the difference between dreams and reality"? I know that my dog dreams, but when he wakes up, does he have the presence of mind to think "oh, that was only a dream"? Or does he think that he was actually herding cows a few minutes ago? Or does he even remember it? |
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Wayne
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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There are tons of animals which I think can reason. The difference is between very simple things and complex ones. So it really comes down to how complex you think lucid dreaming is. I for one dont think its that bad. |
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Animals may be just like people in that some of them are lucid and some are not. A parrot may realize that when it sleeps it goes somewhere that it can do many strange things that it can't do when it is awake. It doesn't really have to realize that it's a parrot now does it, or know exactly what a dream is. People don't even completely understand that one. With how real dreaming can feel, to a simple animals mind it may seem more real than waking. Lucid dreaming isn't a product of intelligence, anyone can do it. Something doesn't need to reason to be aware that it is percieving, even instinctually a creature understands that there are consequences to actions. Now if a creature experiences a lack of consequences it most likely won't know what it is, but it is still a lucid dream. It doesn't have to know that it's a dream, only that it isn't normal or real, which IMO isn't entirely mentally strenous to do. I think the simple capacitly to dream would be the only prerequisite to lucid dreaming. |
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