Is it possible to know what dogs dream about?

Many times our dogs clearly show that they are dreaming, through movement and their reactions and it is undoubtedly that they seem happy at times, other times they wave their paws and growl as if fighting or threatening imaginarily.

Scientific research has come to interesting conclusions about the sleep phases of animals. This has allowed us to outline theories that can help us decipher what our dogs could dream about.

We will never be able to know the exact content of these dreams, because unfortunately the animals do not speak and therefore cannot tell us the details. Comparisons with human parameters have been able to describe a hypothesis of dogs' dreams.

Dreams were identified as a consequence of the phases of brain maintenance, a kind of “reset of the thinking machine”. In the dream, the brain settles our memories and learning and everything we have experienced is about locating in brain areas, in that process, the connections of neurons are strengthened to achieve it.

Dreams, therefore, are not an entertainment or a guideline of a cryptic message. They are a rearrangement of the neuron scaffold l. So can dogs dream? Of course, in its own way and simplicity of emotions and feelings embodied in its own and particular intellect.

It is ensured that dogs dream of two things or themes: the first is with us, their guardians. This is because for dogs the human reference marks the fundamental axis of their days, we are their safety, their distraction, their everything.

For all that, the dog dreams of us mainly. Several investigations revealed that dogs remember in their dreams the face and particularly the smell of their tutor.

The smell thing makes a lot of sense given the development of smell in the dog that moves in a universe of “olfactory images” that can and are remembered in sleep.

The dog's dreams smell like his guardians. On the other hand, it has been determined that dogs dream of a second theme: walks and games.

During the deepest stage of sleep, the REM phase (Rapid Eye Movement), dogs' eyes move under the eyelids, like those of humans. This is the stage of sleep when they move their legs and seem to reproduce what they experienced during the game day.

*Prof. Dr. Juan Enrique Romero @drromerook is a veterinary physician. Specialist in University Education. Master's Degree in Psychoimmunoneuroendocrinology. Former Director of the Small Animal School Hospital (UNLPAM). University Professor at several Argentine universities. International lecturer.

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