2023-07-07 06:00:00
PSYCHOLOGY – The question seems settled for pet owners. However, among scientists, it remains unresolved…
For the vast majority of those who live alongside a pet, the question seems rhetorical indeed. It is enough to look at your cat or dog sleeping to be convinced that it possesses a dreamlike activity as rich as ours: these leg movements, this alert nose, these little noises… What else could they be? than the manifestation of the adventure movie that takes place inside your sleeping pet’s skull? But an empirical conviction, however shared it may be, has no value as proof in the eyes of science. And as surprising as it may seem, the dream of animals is a question that is still far from being settled. There is no scientific consensus on this subject, which even fuels a lively debate among experts!
«It is this contrast between the point of view of the people who live with animals and that of the scientists who study them that motivated me to delve into the science produced around this subject.», explains David Peña-Guzmán…
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