Do Animals Dream Introduction: Having various animals growing up I have always wondered what they were doing while they slept. Did they just lay there in a deep sleep or could they have the capability of having a dream? This is a question I have never answered over the years and would like to explore now to find out the answer. I've watched different pets throughout my life while they slept but could never tell if they were dreaming. I noticed that different kinds of animals sleep in different positions and I ask myself, "does this effect if animals dream?" When I was younger, I had several cats, some inside and some outside, and they all acted differently. The cats who stayed indoor would find a corner or something soft to sleep on, even each other. I really don't know where the outside cats slept all the time. I do remember seeing them under the porch asleep and under cars. I was too young to remember if they looked like they were dreaming or just sleeping. As I got older, I got a dog for a pet but I don't really remember much about it. Although, the whole time I was growing up my dad had fish. There were always fish swimming around a tank and I can not for the life me remember a time that they would be sleeping. They were always moving or just being still and looking. Fish are interesting animals because it's hard to know or even tell if they sleep much less dream. After my daughter was born, we got some cats and then two hamsters and later some goldfish and finally a Chihuahua. The cats that we had were twin cats named Tigger and Tiger. They didn't get much sleep at the time because Robin, my daughter, was around two years old and was constantly doing something with them. If they did dream while t... ... middle of paper ... ....oclc.org/:next=NEXTCMD…cs=1:/fsrec4.txt%22%3Asessionid =1725001:4* English 1302 Evening Class Survey. April 20, 2000. Feldman, Eve B. Animals Don't Wear Pajamas: A Book About Sleeping. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. Gould, James L., and Carol Grant Gould. The Animal Mind. New York: Scientific American Library, 1994. Griffin, Donald R. Animal Minds. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. People with Pets Survey. Various Dates. Rogers, Lesley J. Minds of Their Own: Thinking and Awareness in Animals. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997. Stewart, Doug. "Do Fish Sleep and What's That on Your Eyelash?" Biology Digest Vol. 32:57- 58. April-May, 1994. *http://firstsearch.oclc.org/:next=NEXTCMD…cs=1:/fsre c4.txt%22%3Asessionid=1725001:4* Veterinarians. Email Survey. Various Dates. Zoos. Email Survey. Various Dates.
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 2004. 4, 8, 120, 133, 158, 184, 204, 220, 221. Print.
The Napping House (1984) is a children’s book that illustrates an interesting story about a family and their journey into attempting to get to sleep. Each page a new person or animal piles onto the last person. It starts with a bed in the house, then a granny, then child and so on. As the story builds suspense, the additions continue to decrease in size finishing with a tiny flea. Amazingly enough, the flea creates an amazing ripple effect by biting the mouse and the mouse is startled to say the least. The disruption startles the cat, which effects the dog and then the child and granny. Chaos erupts and everyone and thing that was piled on the bed is in the air with smiles on their faces. When the dust settles everyone is awake and the day
Political and Social Messages of Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees Perhaps The Poisonwood Bible is Barbara Kingsolver's best work? It was while reading this book (which centers around The Congo and what the western world has done to this country) that I began to make the connection that all of Kingsolver's books contain a political and social message. She uses her stance as an author to illuminate her readers to situations and issues that she feels are important. Kingsolver's voice can be heard in Animal Dreams when the main character, Codi talks about what happened to her sister, Hallie in Nicaragua, and how unaware Americans were to what was happening in that country.
Edgar Allan Poe was a crazy man; however, he was one of the best story and poetry writer in the world history. He wrote the short stroy “The Tell-Tale Heart” one of the most widly known literature pieces he wrote. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of the most suspenseful storyies I had ever read. Just saying that made me want to write this: Edgar Allen Poe keeps the reader in suspense in “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the use of great detail, use of first person narrating, and the noise he uses to create atmosphereic pressure.
Mark Haddon, 2010. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. 0 Edition. Gardner Press.
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Berlin: Cornelsen, 2008. Print.
Exploringn a Neurobiological Theory of Dreaming Neurobiological theory of dreaming focuses on the brain and the nervous system. The activation synthesis theory which is one of the theories put forward by Hobson and Mcarley (1998) said sleep is controlled by mechanism in the brainstem. When activated this inhibits activity in the skeletal muscles and increases activity in the forebrain. This theory seems dreaming as an automatic part of the sleep process that may have no significance beyond the need to organize the material into coherent forms. Hobson points out that injection of a drug that increases the action of acetylcholine both increases REM sleep and dreaming.
Hardy, Thomas. "The Sleep-Worker." Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Ed. Scott Elledge. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1991.
Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 2003.
I have had a lot of pet to. By the time I was born my family had two dogs and one cat. A small dog name Baby, and a pit bull name Meat, and a orange cat named Tiby. Then after my brother was born we got another dog, we named Zoey. When I was in Kindergarten Meat died and a couple months
Despite the large amount of time we spend asleep, surprisingly little is actually known about sleeping and dreaming. Much has been imagined, however. Over history, sleep has been conceived as the space of the soul, as a state of absence akin to death, as a virtual or alternate reality, and more recently, as a form of (sub)consciousness in which memories are built and erased. The significance attributed to dreams has varied widely as well. The Ancient Greeks had surprise dream encounters with their gods. Native Americans turned to their dreams for guidance in life. Shamans dreamed in order to gather information from the spirits.
In the novel, Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee, the magistrate’s progressive, non-linear dreams are a parallel to his growing involvement with the barbarians and his growing distaste for the empire. The great psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud said, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious.” In every dream there is a hidden meaning and when the reader starts analyzing the magistrate’s dreams he reveals that he is oddly attracted to the barbarians and knows he should not get involved and it will be a trial to get close to them.
...esults. One interesting thing found, is that although it is though that dreams happen in a blink of an eye that they actually happen in a realistic time span (General Information). Another is that dreams generally take place in familiar settings and are random leftover thoughts from the previous day. What’s interesting though, is that during studies in which participants were woken on a regular basis, scientists found that the dreams remembered the following morning were “more coherent, sexier, and generally more interesting” than the dream descriptions that were collected in data for research. Most participants remembered very little of their dreams and only about the last fifteen minutes of dreaming before awoken.
Steger, B. & Brunt, L. (2003). Night-time and sleep in Asia and the West: exploring the dark side of life. New York, NY: Routleg Curzon.
The Psychological Theories of the Function of Dreaming Freud argues that dreams are 'the royal road to the unconscious', that they reveal the wishes and desires of the unconscious mind and attempt to fulfil them. However, the true nature of these desires cannot be presented within dreams because they may be unacceptable to the conscious mind, causing great anxiety. The true nature of our unconscious desires, known as the latent content of dreams, is disguised and substituted by the manifest content, our experience of the dream. Freud identified the latent content of the manifestation of many objects in dreams, including the following objects: Latent Content Manifest Content Desire for sexual intercourse Flying Climbing stairs Crossing a bridge Travelling through a tunnel Breasts Apples Peaches Grapefruits Male sexual organs Bullets Knives Fire Snakes Sticks Umbrellas Female sexual organs Ovens Boxes Tunnels Caves Bottles Ships Freud believed that the function of dreaming was to act as a release for our unconscious desires so that the energy invested in them would not build up to a level which could be a danger to our sanity. One criticism of the Freudian theory of the function of dreaming is based on research findings indicating that the immediate environment of the sleeper can effect the content of their dreams.