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5/12/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.761-5/12/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
What do animals dream about?
A very interesting question, isn’t it? Some of you might have heard a dog or a cat groan while it’s slumbering. But how can people find if certain animals or birds actually dream as they can’t answer such interrogations?
These days, there seem to be some ways to compare animals’ brain activities when they are awake and asleep. Some researchers studied the electrical activity in some part of animals’ brain if they fire certain neurons that are observed when they are in certain action like running or singing. They found that the same brain activities are seen while they are REM, rapid eye movement, sleep as the ones when they are in action. In other words, brains of some animals seem to be functioning in the same way as they do while they are awake.
But is that a dream? It might sound like just reviewing the activities they did during their wake-hours. No imagination or creation of something beyond the daily life or activities?
Enjoy reading and learning about animals’ dream.


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