It seems that animals dream, based on similar sleep patterns in humans. But, this dreaming may be different than ours.
on rats offered an even more intriguing peek into the minds of sleeping animals. Researchers at University College London monitored the brain activity of rats as they showed the rats the location of food and taught them the route through a maze to get there. They didn’t allow the rats to actually reach the food, though. Later when the rats were sleeping, they monitored the rats’ brain activity. Next, they put the rats back in the maze, without blocking them from the food.
During this process, you can get some weird associations — stray bits of memory pop up in odd places, creating one of the most memorable features of dreaming: It can feel surreal, like a kaleidoscopic parade of loosely related images. It tends to be a very random process, even if we often impose some kind of narrative or meaning on what we recall once we wake up.Non-human animals need to consolidate what’s happened to them during their waking hours, too.
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