What's Your Cat Dreaming About?
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If you've ever watched an animal sleep and wondered what they're dreaming about, science has the answers.
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A new language in 3 weeks, or just 3 days if you are a sleeping rat dreaming 7 times faster than reality.
Or just 13 minutes, 4 layers deep...
Cruel soldier 08
my cat Pancakes frequently has nightmares. he'll scream in his sleep and thrash around until he wakes himself up (or I wake him up) and then he immediately comes and cuddles with me for awhile before going back to bed. I've always been curious what on earth an indoor spoiled baby could possibly be having nightmares of.
My kitty Carmen has nightmares, too. She twitches and murmurs, then she wakes herself by yelling, and then comes over to tell me about her dream (she is a very vocal girl).
Cat is just like me frfr
Empty bowl of food!
Probably a nightmare about being replaced by a cute kitten. Or maybe that you left forever and his bowl was empty
Awww.... poor Pancakes.....hopefully he's just screaming for maple syrup
Getting chased by a monster _can_ be a nightmare but it doesn't _have_ to be. It can also be about tricking and outsmarting that monster, and then feeling good about yourself when you trap it or slip away. So I hope that cephalopods have dreams like that as well: cool dreams where they slip in between all their enemies like a ninja and emerge victorious.
Well, you know how that will go. Just as soon as they get close to their goal the dream will throw obstacles in their way, they'll start moving in slow motion, and then wake up.
Not always. It is possible to "dream train" if you are having repetitive nightmares. I had one for YEARS about a mountain lion. I did the "training", and turned the mountain lion into a block of cheddar cheese in the midst of being pounced upon. Literally, took the teeth right out of that nightmare! Lol.
My brain usually freaks out and then makes me escape in some impossible way...like just fading outside through a wall so I can walk away.
The fact that cephalopods dream about being chased by predators means they can recreate frightening/threatening situations in their minds, which means cephalopods might get anxiety just like us
Anxiety is a basic survival drive. I'd wager much simpler things than a cephalopod can feel anxious. Anxiousness keeps you on edge which means you react faster to threats, and thereby live and reproduce. So think of it this way; your crippling anxiety might be a survival advantage passed down for millions of years. The dudes who were chill got ate.
Cuttlefish be needing a cuddle
@@neondemon5137yes but you are talking about a chronic extreme version of anxiety. Not just the emotion of being anxious.
Humans most often get anxiety about stupid crap
That’s probably the genuine truth. Poor guys get stressed extremely easily, even with enrichment and toys. Thats why they don’t live too long in captivity. You’re lucky to get a year out of a giant pacific for instance, we got 6 months out of our last one before she got stressed and passed.
1:12 "We know this because of...science!" needs to be a t-shirt
No it doesn’t. The Bangladeshi sweatshop workers don’t need new things to screen print
This sounds like an idiot's conception of what being smart means. "Science" isn't a thing, it a a broad and complex system of gathering knowledge in an attempt to ensure that knowledge is also true, though often various incentive structures and limitations of gathering information mean that results aren't always true.
When we sleep, our brains release a chemical that inhibits muscle movement.
I've seen footage of kittens injected with a chemical that blocks that muscle inhibitor, and when they were dreaming they were standing up trying to catch imagined things in the air.
Also, these kittens were born and raised indoors, and had never encountered aerial prey, so they were acting out instinctive hunting techniques.
Cats raised indoors could still encounter aerial "prey" in the form of flying insects, tbf
Mine pounced on dust motes drifting in the sun.
I've seen a young seagull hopping and flying around trying to catch a bug, learning to hunt, it was kind of amusing like watching a puppy or kitten learning their skills. I think they must dream too or at least the smarter ones like corvids and parrots.
“Yeah I’m a scientist”
“Oh what do you study?”
“Octopus dreams”
My pet cows also dream much like us, the whole REM, lip and ear twitching and little noises they make. They do this only in small few min bursts throughout the day.
I've sometimes dreamed I was talking in German, a language I struggle to speak right. My performance while dreaming was much better - when awake, I checked out what I remembered.
I’m guessing it’s related to how lowered inhibitions improve fluency.
Even if cats could tell us what they dream... they wouldn't. XD
Or they would, at great length, when we are in the middle of something important that we need to focus on. And then they'd sulk about our not paying enough attention to the important bits later.😼
Murder. It's definitely murder.
"Dreams happen so we can replay the day"
Meanwhile, my dreams about apocalyptic and wholesome events in space and in weird worlds with hundreds of train stations on top of eachother, connected by spaghetti escalators, featuring characters from movies I haven't seen in 20 years:
I'm pretty sure my cats dream about the same things that my dog does. Having opposable thumb so that they can open the cans of food
The only food my cat didn't like was canned cat food. I tried all the brands. He clearly hated it.
He liked the crunchy dry kibble stuff. I used a feeder that would give him all he wanted and he never gained weight in the form of fat so I don't think food supply was an issue.
Opening the catnip container would be a different matter.
@@kensmith5694 So I have one cat Josie. That's just like that. She will occasionally eat some of Mr. Butters food. He will not eat dry food. He will only eat wet food and it's got to be pate and I got to put a bunch of water in it. Warm water at that. And he's a rescue kind of hard early life so he doesn't have all his teeth, but he still manages to eat pretty well.
Several of my cats have been known to growl in their sleep before waking up hissing. I'm convinced cats occasionally have nightmares. If I could figure out how to get them to only have nice dreams, I would. Nightmares suck.
well you can start by waking the furball up when you notice it is having a nightmare. they will likely be a bit confused first, but eventually, if they are smart, they might actually come to feel thankful and appreciative of you stopping the bad dream and comforting them after before they go to sleep again resting in the tranquillity that their best furless giant friend is there to look out for them when they are at their most vulnerable.
@@00101001000000110011 The first time I tried that, I got bitten. Now I speak softly before gently petting them while they sleep and they calm right down. But it would be ideal if none of us had nightmares in the first place.
We do not only need to chase dreams. We should also escape nightmares. I demand that when you escape to find safety, your beloved all will be there.
They're fine, they'll survive
I'm convinced cats have nightmares, too. My Beastie (a thoroughly pampered indoor cat whose worst life experiences are probably having a leg amputated, being in some earthquakes, and being watched by chickens, which freak her out) sometimes moves in her sleep. Usually she's just twitching her whiskers, paws, her left back hip (where her leg was amputated; she has pretty intense phantom limb), and nose, and meowing a little in her sleep (as she's gotten older she's also statted making the cutest little grumbles). But sometimes she'll be asleep, twitching her paws and hip, and her tail will start twitching and she'll start hissing and growling. She NEVER hisses or growls when she's awake unless she smells dogs or sees and smells another cat. She'll often also yowl and cry when she has those types of dreams. If I'm around, I usually wake her up, and she looks very confused and scared whenever I do, and poofs all her fur out, but then starts rubbing my hand or otherwise asking for cuddles (if I wake her from regular sleep, she kinda looks at me like "hhwhhat? Oh it's you. How's it" and then goes right back to ignoring me).
I'm not sure what her nightmares might be about, but I hope for her sake it's not the vet. Hopefully it's something more manageable, like big scary chickens (nobody tell her that half her food is made of chickens! Though...that is the flavour she refuses to eat...🤔)
Judging by the ekekekeks, I’m guessing my cats often dream about birds
Science video about cats = instant click
I know with 100% certainty that my furball dreams about eating every human on earth and becomes a galactic ruler where all planets only contain whiskas temptations and small stuffed animal mice.
Bruh my cat knows what the bags sound like and comes running any time a package that sounds like that is opened lol. we keep various flavors on hand. Each of our cats has a preference that is difference, Our fat boi Pumpkin will pick his flavor when he asks for treats.
Peaches leans seafood/fish.
Pumpkin likes bird. Chicken mostly.
Don't forget the red laser circles to chase.
But do androids dream of electric sheep?
My dogs often dream, subvocal barking, and sometimes making running motions.
Their subconscious is a subwoofer? 😂
Fish: "i had a dream that above the water is another universe of possibilities"
My cats just snores loudly, not moving 😂
Mine do both
My dogs run around playing with each other. When they sleep, they run and bark just like when they play. No need to focus on all the threats and bad dreams, they can also have happy fun dreams.
Contrary to popular opinion, cats can be trained. It seems like it would be possible to run a similar experiment as with rodents (look at brain patterns while training them then look for similar brain patterns during sleep).
What happens when your brain replays the events while you're still awake?
It happens to me occasionally, most notably when I learned to ride a bike. I kept feeling and 'seeing' the process of maintaining balance, particularly while sitting or laying down, when my inner ear wasn't employed in spatial awareness.
I was chatting to folks about that happening after playing video games recently. Like seeing the motions of the game after you've stopped playing
There is a term for this, which has escaped to the depths of my brain right now.🙄 I experienced this whole learning to swim.
That's just learning.
I think that’s been called the Tetris effect, or something along those lines.
Essentially, performing monotonous, simple, and/or extremely repetitive tasks for extremely long periods can cause you to start associating or thinking about those tasks, or elements of those tasks, in relation to other subjects of focus.
It was called the Tetris effect because, to my understanding, the phenomenon is most obvious when it occurred in response to video games, particularly Tetris, presumably because video games have much less similarity to more ‘real’ activities, so noticing the shapes of Tetris pieces in square grids, or organising your groceries on the kitchen counter in a way that causes all of them to fit together geometrically before putting them away is much more obvious than something like driving to work out of habit on your day off.
I thank that’s how it works and what it’s called anyway, I’m going largely from memory when writing this comment.
They TRIED to messure cat's brain activity in REM and they found out - the hard way - that cats HATE having caps and electrodes attached to their heads.
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Huckleberry is a cute cat name.
Thanks for this! I was curious about my kitties. They are both twitchy while sleeping.
Your cat is dreaming about getting cuddles until ìts too much snuggles then it dreams about clawing your jugular out
Cats dream about knocking things off shelves.
My cat loves to sleep on me. I adore it when she starts dreaming and twitching her paws. Depending on the location of the cat on me it can be quite ticklish.
My cat would sometimes wake up from sleep and do a full on panic run out of the room. If was clear that he had a bad dream.
He also would make the same sort of noises as he would make when he say a bird. I suspect that in his dream he saw a bird.
I want a cat now
That cat distribution has now recognized your desire for a cat. I give it a month and one appears needing a new home 😂 that's just how it works, I swear.
Can Babbel teach me to speak Cat?
Meow
My kitten is just shy of 6 months old, and when she was under, say, 14 weeks old I would occassionally see her suckle in her sleep. She stopped doing that until very recently, where my mom spotted her suckling in her sleep. It's not much to guess that she's dreaming about her mom.
Another cat we had had a period where she was having nightmares(age 9 or 10), growling and waking up hissing. I don't know what caused it, but it stopped after some months. She was weird too, where she would sleep very deeply without moving for hours (scary since she was 12+ at the time) where even shaking her wouldn't wake her. Vet didn't have many answers but it didn't seem to impact her health, and she made it another 5 years until CKD took her.
Ill admit, that was a pretty good ad lead-in
Love the creative video answering a q we all have
"Huckleberry"!?
OMG that's a cute kitty name! 💖
Our cat gets in little hissy fights with the kittens, then goes back to sleep and starts sleep-grumbling. Little guy is dreaming about fighting his roommates.
Really interesting information on animal dreams, I had no idea that many animals replay their day in their dreams.
A great example of Betteridge's law. When the clickbait ends in a question mark, the answer is either "no" or "We have no idea".
Kinda dig this new set you build there.
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Tuna, catnip and world domination, precisely in that exact order.
Neil Gaiman knows.
So rats train at 7x the speed, got it.
Rat dreams are Hyperbolic Time chambers????
Noticed what appeared to be REM with leopard gekkos I used to have.
My dog chases stuff in his sleep. Sometimes he will stop and "boof" bark, and then keep chasing.
my little tigers are dreaming, too. The legs move, it moans and sometimes wake up with eyes suddenly wide open. It must be something around in the house, whats the living space of the past 10x years was. Maybe its a jump too far from the wardrobe, maybe its the other cat playing too rough with them, or maybe its the missing person around and feeling alone, we can only imagine. But THAT it has dreams, shows its a Thinking-Beeing, even when its not with words or logic. but it has content and something to work out by sleep, like humans.
When my cat goes into REM, she has little twitches as if she's running or trying to grab with her front paws
Cuttlepusses and octofish are love
It's super cute to think that my rats might be dreaming of me at the same time I'm dreaming of them, just a lot faster.
It's especially wild that their dreams are sped up given the pace they go in their waking moments. In 5 minutes, they can have done their basic check of my room, dropped by for a brief cuddle, grabbed a snack from their stash and wrestled a bit with their buddy.
I don't THINK this was a dream, but your mention of "but neither of us speak French" - this happened to me back in August 1989. Anecdotal as it is it's still always fascinated me as to "WTF was my brain even doing?!"
My first summer in Mississippi was, let's say, rough: I was used to desert heat, not swamp humidity, and I honestly thought I was gonna die in those first months (we arrived in June). So I'm laying on the couch just suffering, my mother comes into the room to ask me something. I look up, answer her, and every single word came out of my mouth twice. Like some kind of trippy echo effect! She looked at me, I looked at her, and she turned around and left the room. We never, ever spoke of it again, heh. And it's entirely possible I dreamed ALL of that, so vividly that it seems like a real event. Which apparently isn't uncommon in humans? Just one of the weirdest language and dream related things I've got in my memories!
Kittens and puppies that have been weaned recently definitely have nursing dreams. Kneading and licking in the air.
J. R. R. Tolkien answered that question to my satisfaction in his poem, Cat.
The fat cat on the mat
may seem to dream
of nice mice that suffice
for him, or cream;
but he free, maybe,
walks in thought
unbowed, proud, where loud
roared and fought
his kin, lean and slim,
or deep in den
in the East feasted on beasts
and tender men.
The giant lion with iron
claw in paw,
and huge ruthless tooth
in gory jaw;
the pard* dark-starred,
fleet upon feet,
that oft soft from aloft
leaps on his meat
where woods loom in gloom--
far now they be,
fierce and free,
and tamed is he;
but fat cat on the mat
kept as a pet,
he does not forget.
* "Pard* can be either an archaic term for leopard, or a cat-like animal from medieval manuscript marginalia.
It's pretty obvious my food-motivated cat dreams about eating, and smacks his lips and chews while he sleeps, and it's hilarious.
Often, I have dreams of stepping off a curb I didn't notice and violently twitching myself awake, much to the annoyance of the dreaming kitkats curled up alongside me. I did legitimately accidentally kick Apollo in the face a couple nights ago in that exact scenario, with his head resting on my foot. Sorry, kitty.
As for my two cats, Artemis is a very quiet girl. She almost never meows. Her dreams, even the ones she is hunting in if her paws and tail are any indicator, are silent. Her brother, though? He is a chatty boy, all the time. Apollo demands your attention. When he dreams, he chitters, growls, and whines once his paws start going. It is very amusing.
Sleeping animals are precious. (◡‿◡✿)
One of my cats will growl in his sleep, not every time, but a few times a month. Recently, I had a dream I had moved to Sweden and was taking a Swedish proficiency exam. The entire dream was in Swedish, which I do not speak.
Liking the new background
I envy the engineer tasked with making a cat sized EEG scanner 🥺🐈
Whatever my cat and dog dream about, it seems to be similar; twitchy feet, and high pitched whistle whines (dog)/ soft whines (cat)
My cat Oscar talks in his sleep. He makes those little 'mek mek mek' noises he does while watching the bird feeder.
After watching this, I'm convinced my cat's secretly a superhero fighting crime in her dreams!
I think my fat, arthritic cat dreams of running and jumping unencumbered.
Rat noses are particularly adorable.
I think that I know what my dog dreams about. He never had nightmares until a while ago. Now he has nightmares at least once a week.
He cries out, sometimes barks, his breathing becomes fast. He moves his legs as if he is running. He is really frightened.
What triggered this seems to have been an incident when I was walking him in a local park. Two teenagers arrived on electric scooters, and seeing that my dog was running free, they decided that it would be fun to chase him. He was terrified, as you can imagine, and since then, he has gotten nightmares.
Thankfully, he came to me for protection when I called to him.
He seems to be reliving in his nightmare what has probably been the most distressing incident in his life.
The fat cat on the mat
may seem to dream
of nice mice that suffice
for him, or cream;
but he free, maybe,
walks in thought
unbowed, proud, where loud
roared and fought
his kin, lean and slim,
or deep in den
in the East feasted on beasts
and tender men.
- by Samwise Gamgee, translated by JRR Tolkien
I'm certain my cat is dreaming about outdoor activities. She chirps, runs, and uses jaw muscles just like she would when catching prey. If she starts growling in her sleep, I always wake her, because I knows she's unconsciously confronting her rival neighbor cats. When that happens, she's always happy to be awakened, and gives me a series of greeting mrrps.
"His paws twitched as he dreamed… and oh the rabbits are everywhere, this grey and endless morning."
- Stephen King.
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(Yes I know he's talking about Kojak the dog but y'get the idea.)
I once read about another research into cat dreaming. It worked by switching off the function in the brain that stops us from moving too much when we're sleeping (sorry, I either forgot the details or more likely never knew them). Their conclusion was that cats in their dreams are chasing mice and fighting monsters.
My dog had one dream where his toys could move around on their own. They weren’t alive or anything like that, they were still stuffed animals, but they didn’t need an outside force to run and jump. That was just one of his dreams but I don’t know any of his other dreams.
I wonder how soon we will be able to replay human dreams
Didn't think *Inception* got it right with the time dilation, but apparently, they were just dreaming as rodents
Our cat is also called Huckleberry
They're soooooo FLUFFY!!!!
How cool! We've always believed that dogs are chasing rabbits in their sleep and it seems we were probably correct. I love when the stories we tell turn out to be true. Now, I just wish the story I keep telling myself about winning the lottery jackpot becomes true as well.
My cats def dream about being outside and eating unlimited human food lol
The Onion helped me figure this out back in 2006. I mean, the kitten was daydreaming, but I figured that it was basically the same thing.
I've always found it hilarious how cats twitch like crazy when they're deeply asleep ^^ sometimes they even wake themselves up and feel all discombobulated, so I'm here like "heyyyy did the mouse get away ? or was it a kangaroo-sized one that almost caught you?" and make fun of them while scratching their head or belly.
My cat Patches, was rescued from the streets, so I presume her nightmares might be a return to fear, hiding, and not enough food.
What about an all Huckleberry video? I think that is needed.
our cat is also sometimes growling in his sleep. so we know he has a nightmare ;-)
I swear (because I'm an Australian) my cat dreams about chasing mice. He'll be asleep on top of me, his legs will start twitching with growing enthusiasm.
I know when he has caught the mouse, because his legs stop, and he starts smacking his lips.😸
Why is it, I can never make, a proper cup of tea in my dreams.
I'm 100% sure my old cat dreamt about murdering everything it theoretically could
I’ve seen a bearded dragon lick it’s lips in it’s sleep. Dreaming about tasty worms ig
How many other species can dream?
I suspect that a lot do. Any brain that is reasonably complex likely leads to dreaming.
Scishow has gotten so groovy
My cat was terrorized the first year of her life by a very loud family with 3 young boys and two dogs. All she did was hide under the couch, so they eventually brought her to the shelter because she was “boring.”
My fur baby has nightmares, but they’re less often now. I can probably guess what they are about.
When dogs have nightmares they’re dreaming of Kristi Noem.
I have pet rats and now im so happy to know what they dream about 🥺
Y'all should ask What About Bunny lol
One of my cats dreams about eating. I can tell because she chews in her sleep 😂
Ms Geary, I love that sweatshirt!
My dog is dreaming about that cat! 😂
When I was younger, my dreams comsisted of living out normal days. Thats how boring I am.
My cat would sell my soul for one cat temptation treat.
Is that the cat from the game stray on the thumbnail?
2:41 is that a Fergalicious reference?
Am I the only one that reached out and touched the toe beans at 5:50?
I’d like to think my cat is imagining having an endless amount of food