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Before I get into this, a word of warning: this topic was made mostly for fun. I'm only moderately serious. :wink:
Yes, I'm talking about you, Carnation, who is right now in deep meditation on my bed, her paws curled under her grey feline body, Her chin tucked into her long neck fur, and her eyes in tight, concentrated black slits. And I'm talking to you, my lazy, lazy hound dog lying belly-up at the foot of the couch, back legs twitching and ears apathetically flopped on the carpet. No, I'm not talking about you, my massive hoards of fish, which sink to the bottom and rhythmically flip their fins in suspended animation. Sorry.
Oops. Lost focus there for a minute.
Honestly, if any of us get massive amounts of sleep, it's our pets. Sheesh, when aren't they sleeping? Now, while I take my dog out for a walk every now and then, I don't do it as much as I should. And what about poor kitty? She had been declawed before I owned her (front claws only). She's never had the chance to hunt mice, climb trees, sneak up on birds... And we all know we can't take their brains for granted. I mean, sure, maybe they don't have a nice language center like we do, along with some other bells and whistles the human brain is known for, but they still have a pretty big cerebrum compared to most animals. How many catnaps must they go through to realize when they're dreaming? I'm sure they've already achieved lucidity once or twice, realizing that I as their owner would never let them eat off my plate, drink from the toilet, chase squirrels through the forest... Doggie/kitty dreamsigns, you know?
Pets get a lot of sleep. Pets aren't able to do anything they want in real life. Pets are pretty smart. With that in mind, is it possible that your Fido is a master at lucid dreaming?
Oh, and as a sidenote, this is my 100th post!
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I said yup, altho I'm not sure. They do dream a lot tho, so maybe.
I've often wondered what they think about dreams; it they don't really have good recall, or if they think all the stuff they dreamed about really happened. It always seems like they are dreaming the same thing (hear something, see something, smell something, chase it.) But sometimes the do cry out like something surprising happened.
I wish we could ask them. Well I guess we can, but I wish they could answer.
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I voted nah... Cause that's exactly what my dogs do, they run into glass doors and stuff.
But it wouldn't surprise me, in a way. I've always wondered how animals think, on a deeper level than wow, look at that person above me! Maybe they easily LD. Would be an interesting experiment...
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I'm against animal experimentation. Except I did make my dog dream about eating once by putting food in front of his nose while he was sleeping. Then he woke up and ate it.
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The other day, my dog woke up screaming. As if she just got ran over by a car or something.
as she screamed she jumped up, then looked a little confused. she then ran right over to me
and started licking my face. As if she was very happy to see me.
I wonder what that was all about!
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Sounds like she had a dream that something bad happened to you! Then she was releived that you were all right.
I'm pretty good at animal-dream interprtation, huh? Hmm, new career opportunity....?
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lol, yeah good job! your right it could have been a dream like that.
But maybe she was just happy to see me because she was afraid.
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Hey don't argue with a professional animal dream interpeter! :wink:
I'll send you a bill.
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lol sorry, won't happen again.
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Yeah I've seen my two cats twitching in their sleep - they eyes moving rapidly beneath their eyelids. I've always wondered what they dream about since neither one of them have stepped foot outside in their entire lives. I imagine they still dream instinctualy about chasing/catching mice and birds, since they have a high prey drive toward their mouse and bird toys.
If only we knew...
