Do dogs dream about their owners?
Onie O'Keefe
2025-10-19 18:57:43
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Dogs and people dream about things that occurred during their waking hours. Information gathered during the day is processed and may be relived in dreams. Like you, a dog may relive daytime experiences and “sleep run” while chasing a cat or fetching a ball. It is believed that during this REM sleep, dogs visualize dream images much as their owners do in this phase of sleep. Dreams are part of the normal sleep cycle, and dogs do indeed have them. We know that humans dream, and since the sleeping brains of dogs and people go through similar stages of electrical activity, it is safe to assume that dogs dream, too. Scientific research demonstrates comparable brain wave patterns in humans and dogs, which validates this assumption. Dogs do, indeed, dream.