Who do cats dream about?

Cats can dream.

They are masters of sleep, not only through sleep to restore physical strength, but also through sleep to intellectual recovery. And the latest research shows that cats seem to be able to make themselves stronger through dreams.

In their dreams, cats can repeatedly simulate what they have experienced in the past day, summarize their experiences and form some kind of new behavioral habits.

This new doctrine gives a completely new interpretation of the cat's ability to sleep more than 15 hours a day.

Cats like to sleep, probably not because they are lazy, but to enter the dream world.

Among animals, cats have the top sleeping ability.

They can perform a deep sleep similar to that of humans. You can see by observing the cat in your home that it sometimes falls asleep in conspicuous places in your home, while other times it purposely finds quiet and secluded places to sleep. The former is often a light sleep, while the latter is a deep sleep that is essential for cats.

Cats have a "rapid eye movement sleep (REM) period" similar to humans, and scientists have examined the brain wave activity of cats in this state. It was found to be highly similar to what happens in humans when they dream.

Through brain preamplifiers and EEG recorders, scientists found that cats can even make better use of deep sleep than humans. They will have no less rich dreams than humans during the deep sleep period.

What do cats dream about in their dream state?

Cat-Res scientists monitored the EEG of 100 cats in advance, recording the condition of their EEG when they experienced a certain event or scene during the day. During the cats' sleep dreams, the scientists compared their EEG conditions with the previously recorded ones.

Through long-term complex observations, the scientists gave a set of data.

More than 85% of the cat's dreams were related to what the cat experienced in the past day.

Dreams related to eating and food may account for more than 30% of the cat's dreams.

Cats have 40% of their dreams that are related to their owners. But this in turn includes components such as owner feeding, owner-cat interaction, etc.

Nearly half of the cat's dreams are related to the day's "vigorous sports", including games, hunting, fighting, etc.

Unlike humans, cats' dreams contain relatively few memories of the distant past.

Cats seem to recall more of the events, people and animals they have seen in the past day in their dreams.

And this has unique value for cats.

Scientists have found that cats that can sleep deeply and dream daily have better wound recovery, than cats that cannot sleep deeply.

In addition to wound recovery, humans taught the same skills or toys to cats, and those cats that could have deep sleep and dream were more likely to acquire that knowledge quickly.

Zoologists have thus come up with a bold speculation: cats are using dreams, in repairing and learning.

A cat's dreams have a lot to do with its owner.

A cat's dreams are more related to events and experiences in the past 24 hours. And cats can easily recreate eating and playing scenes in their dreams.

So those owners who regularly feed their cats and play interactively with them are likely to be the protagonists of their cats' dreams.

Scientists have summarized the EEG characteristics of cats when they see their owner's likeness through observation and recording. Another analogy was made with the EEG conditions of cats during dreaming, and it was found that at least 40% of the daily dreams of domesticated cats are directly related to their owners.

Scientists also recorded the EEG characteristics of kittens to their mothers through some young cats. And continued to track for many years, found that the cat will actually appear in the dream of the mother cat. It is just that the duration and frequency of appearance is not as high as the owners who see each other every day.

Cats are more advanced animals, and they have many wonderful abilities.

When you see your cat hiding in a quiet place for a deep sleep again, please do not wake it up because it may be busy meeting you in your dream.

Give your cat more good food and play with her, and you will naturally appear in her dreams more often.

I hope you can dream about your cat in your beautiful dreams and also appear in your beloved cat's dreams.

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