About half an hour after my childhood dog fell asleep, the following routine would kick in.
First, his snoring would break up into periods of excited snorting. Then, his hind leg would start to twitch.
Minutes later, he’d be cycling his limbs frantically, an expression of intense concentration on his snoozing visage. We were convinced he was chasing animals in his dreams (friends have described similar experiences with their own dogs).
But do dogs even have what we’d recognise as dreams? And if so, what goes on in their canine minds?
Do dogs dream?
It looks like they probably do.
One study that tracked the animals’ sleep patterns found that, like humans, dogs seem to experience the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep associated with dreaming.
And we know that mammals like rats appear to dream similarly to people (their minds tend to replay what happened during their days).
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