Interpreting Animal Dreams

While it may be impossible to wake up a rat, hand it a notebook, and have it write a bleary-eyed account of its dreams, scientists can instead try to go to the source. Matthew Wilson is just one of those scientists. As a neuroscientists, he's more interested in what is happening inside the brain during sleep, and how it compares to their brain activity while they're awake. Using these sets of data, he can begin to deduce what an animal is dreaming about.

Original Program Date: June 3, 2011

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[Neueregel]

Question: Does the cat that I feed in the streets, dreams of me feeding her catfood pellets? Answer: Yes.

[nedilynpoculan]

I was dreaming a dog they want to bite me