can dogs (or any animal) LD?

[antiflag]

soooo...dogs can dream right? you think they can lucid dream? just something I was wondering

[Creation X]

well...that's a really good question. I can't answer it though. I guess they could.

[Lord Toaster]

I would very much doubt it. If us humans find it so difficult to lucid dream, with our vastly superior brains, then what hope does a dog or any other animal have?

[skunk]

maybe they lucid dream every night

[Cn]

I was just wondering this today, kinda... I was wondering if some insignificant (term used loosely) animal like a rat or a bird or something even dreams, or if they do (which I'm sure they do), what on earth do they dream about?

[Robot_Butler]

I would assume that animals have a very differnt kind of awareness and self awareness than we do. I doubt you could call their dreams lucid or non-lucid based on our standards. I don't even know if a dog's waking reality is "lucid" in the same way that a human's would be. What a great thing to think about.

[Cn]

What a great thing to think about. Tell me about it, I sometimes look at my dog sleeping for hours (not quite hours) wondering what she's dreaming about, or even when she's awake, what is she thinking about?

[Billy_McBong]

i wounder if animals even slightly understand what dreams are. they might think they really happened

[Inferne]

I doubt it. To lucid dream, you must first understand what a dream is and know that you are dreaming, and I highly doubt an animal understands the concept of dreaming.

[antiflag]

they might think they really happened Good point ....wonder if a monkey could?

[Hitzlsperger]

I've seen my Dog make jerking movements in his sleep, and also a a whimper or two. I'm pretty sure Dogs can dream.

[Caradon]

I wouldn't be surprised if they do. I think animals are aware of far more than a lot of people give them credit for. And maybe aware of many things most humans are not.

[LucidDreamGod]

I doubt it. To lucid dream, you must first understand what a dream is and know that you are dreaming, and I highly doubt an animal understands the concept of dreaming. Yeah thats really the answer that I thought it was at first, though a dog probably can't tell the diffrence between reality and a dream, maybe if a dog were really smart it might beable to recognize the state, and simply think "wait this place is diffrent from the normal place I spend my time in" and it may perhaps recognize it as a fun state (like when a dog see's a rope, it wants to chew on it) when it recognizes this state it may want to have a bit of fun, like jumping really high, but who knows I don't think it could go that far.

[The Cusp]

If dogs could lucid dream, what would the do? Kill mailmen and cats? Hump people's legs? They'd probably just eat.

[psychology student]

I severely doubt it.

[ChaybaChayba]

animals aren't even aware of real life, so how would they be aware of dreams :p

[still composed]

How would people even begin to study that? And maybe animals are on a whole different plane of thinking and awareness than we are (i like to think they are) I mean...I don't look at my dog as just some stupid dog..I look at him as a part of my family..and he seems to know when I am sick or sad cause during those times he won't leave my side and cuddles like a teddy bear <3 So I think they can...They just can't tell us about them

[Flying Mandarine]

animals aren't even aware of real life, so how would they be aware of dreams :p I think that's really underestimating animals. And although our brain is bigger and apparently more evolved, it is absolutely not a reason for deducing that we lucid dream better than they do. There are things that can be done by a dog, an ant, an elephant, a fly, but not by us. Some of these things might not only involve the body but also the brain. For all I know, we might be the only animals not lucid dreaming every time we go to sleep. And in the end, if I'm wrong, well, I believe I'd rather be wrong for having overestimated beings than for having underestimated them.

[Xibran123]

Well I heard that dogs do dream but by nature, they must forget their dreams because it might do something to them in a wakeful state or something liike that.

[Shift]

The higher social animals (great apes, dolphins, elephants) have complex brains, similar to the ones that we have, and I bet their dreaming abilities are similar to ours. Lucid dreams... well, most animals seem to lack the sort of awareness that we are talking about that's required to have a lucid dream. Of course, so do most people. I am pretty sure that my dog dreams. Twitching eyes, whimpering in her sleep, etc. She's a complete idiot, too, but still seems to be able to dream on at least a basic level. Hmm... as someone very interested in zoology, psychology, and dreaming... this is a subject that I think about often! I'll have to do some research when I get back to school, though, and see if I can find some facts.

[Shift]

How would people even begin to study that? The same ways that they record empirical data on humans dreaming/LDing

[Dash]

In all fairness, alot of people aren't aware of real life either.

[The White Rabbit]

I doubt it too. Can animals even dream? And even if they do they would never be aware of being lucid.

[goldentheponygirl]

Animals dream. I think we've all seen dogs and cats moving their legs while sleeping like they are dreaming their running. My cat whimpers and cries in his sleep sometimes like something scary is happening in his dream.

[skunk]

it is known that they dream, but what about their recall? maybe they don't have any, or they have a lot. This is a great question