CAN DOGS DREAM?

By Anshiki Jadia

Have you ever wondered what’s going on in your four-legged friend’s head while they are sleeping?
Dogs are similar to humans from multiple points of view. They need exercise, like to cuddle up on the couch and furthermore gets stunned when a new person comes to their home. But when it comes to the sleep, do dog’s brain process in the similar way human do? Basically its might be difficult for us to tell what they are dreaming about but everything we do know about animal’s dream’s, comes from what we know about our own dreams.

Can dogs actually dream?
According to the studies, yes they do. One study at MIT trained rats to frolic a circular track for a food reward. Researchers monitored their brain during the task and again when they were sleeping. When the rats entered REM sleep, the phase where most dreaming occurs, researchers observed that half of their REM episode showed the same unique brain activity as when they were running on the track, awake. Their memories were even replayed at about an equivalent speed. In fact, their brain activity, asleep or awake was so similar that the researchers said they could reconstruct where the rat was on the track and whether it was running or walking. It’s generally thought that sleep allows us to consolidate and encode memories to find out things. So the rats were learning about that circular track, and a later study also in MIT found that the visual areas of rat’s brains are active in dreaming as well as their memory areas, suggesting that animals dreams in pictures.
It also showed that most land mammals experience REM sleep. In dogs REM sleep is like rapid everything movement. They twitch their little noises, they move their mouths, and they often look like they’re running or digging. What’s more, since a canine’s mind is more unpredictable and shows an identical electrical succession, it’s sensible to accept that canines do dream.

What do dogs dream about?

Anything your canine does during the day is being prepared while they rest and remembered in dreamtime. Accordingly, the jerking bristles, the crying and consequently the running paws that we regularly notice. Dreaming is your canine’s effort to comprehend the information being prepared inside the cerebrum.
Chances are that your dog is additionally dreaming about you. While we can’t know definitely, in case canines’ fantasy is packed with people, probability is that that on the off chance that you invest quality energy collaborating along with your canine, they will long for your play meeting, strolls and snuggle time together. Even though dog’s can’t tell us about their dream as they can’t speak, scientists are able to gather information about dog’s dream and sleep pattern through their various observations.

• As a canine starts dreaming, his breathing becomes further and more ordinary.
• While dreaming, the dog’s breathing may become shallow and unpredictable, and muscles may jerk. A few group may portray this as “pursuing bunnies in their rest.”

Thus, both the humans and dogs experience the two phases of the sleep cycle. Scientific researchers exhibits practically identical brain wave pattern in people and dogs which approves this supposition. The conclusion is that dream are essential for the ordinary sleep cycle, and dogs do undoubtedly have them.