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Do dogs dream about their owners?
Olga Collins
2025-11-09 13:04:57
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Dreamland for dogs is likely made up of elements (or fragments) of real life, woven together in mixed up scenarios, and since you are a big part of their lives – that includes you. Yes, all those walkies, belly rubs, ear scritches and rewards for good behaviour feature in your pups night-time adventures. Both humans and dogs have similar sleep cycles, which has led researchers to speculate that dogs dreams are much like ours; they are processing events from the day’s activities. So, although it’s likely they may be dreaming of you (or your scent), it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie. Dogs are processing events from the day’s activities during their dreams, and this can include things that happened with their owners.
Tia Legros
2025-11-01 16:27:30
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Dogs likely experience dreams in a similar way as humans. Whatever you can observe dogs being interested in by day is what you would expect to show up in their dreams, Barrett says. That’s so much how it works for us that it would be surprising if they somehow did the compensation pattern. For pet dogs, that likely means dreaming about food, play and yes, beloved owners, she says. You would kind of expect that the cats that had a fairly strong attachment to owners would dream about owners some—but probably not as much as dogs. Cats and dogs likely experience dreams in a similar way as humans. It’s a very safe, strong guess that they are having some kind of cognitive brain activity that is as much like our dreams as their waking perceptions are like ours, she says.
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Humberto Batz
2025-10-20 00:11:57
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What you may not have realised however is, according to new research by Harvard psychologists, your dog is likely to be dreaming about you too – their human – the most important thing in their life. Dr Deirdre Barrett, a clinical and evolutionary psychologist at Harvard Medical School, carried out extensive research into sleep behaviour and concluded that is a reasonable assumption that your dog dreams very much in the same way you do. Experts therefore theorise that dogs dream not in a logical way, but more visually about what they find interesting and the things that they are emotionally attached to. As Dr Barrett explains, since dogs are generally extremely attached to their human owners, it’s likely your dog is dreaming of your face, your smell and of pleasing or annoying you. It is in the REM sleep stages that dogs dream. If this mechanism in the brain weakens, while your dog is sleeping you’ll be able to watch on in amusement as they chase that stick you kept throwing for them yesterday, run through fields, and most importantly, while they dream of your face and your scent – the biggest comfort too them.
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.
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