Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Do Animals Dream? [ARTICLE]

Do Animals Dream?

Much research and investigation war rants the assertion that man is not the only animal subject to dreams. Horses neigh and rear upon their hind feet while fast asleep; dogs bark and growl and in many other ways exhibit all their characteristic passions. It is highly probable that at such times the remembrance of the chase or of a combat is passing through the dogs’ minds. Besides the above signs of fleeting pain, anger and excitement, these noble creatures often manifest signs of kindness, playfulness and of almost every other passion. Ruminant animals, such as the sheep and the cow, are believed to be less affected with dreams than those of higher passions which spend their waking hours in scenes of greater excitement. Philosophers and investigators tell us that if we trace the dream faculty still lower in the scale of animal life we shall probably find that the same phmomenon exists; and, judging from analogy-, it is only reasonable to reckon dreaming as one of the universal laws—almost as universal as sleep itself. —[St. Louis Republic.

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