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BILLBOARD: “This episode brought to you by Meow Mix Catstarter. Things cats love,
made by people who love cats.”
---INTRO HI I’M CATIE WAYNE AND THIS IS ANIMALIST
NEWS. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT WHEN YOUR CATS
SLEEP THEY TWITCH THEIR PAWS OR EVEN CHATTER? IT’S SO CUTE OH MY GOD.
WHAT’S EVEN CUTER IS THAT THEY HAVE TINY LITTLE KITTY DREAMS!
JUST LIKE HUMANS, IMAGES OF PAST EVENTS REPLAY IN A CAT’S MIND WHILE IT SLEEPS. ALTHOUGH
CATS HAVE A MUCH SMALLER BRAIN, THEIR HIPPOCAMPUS - THE PART THAT RETAINS MEMORIES- IS BELIEVED
TO BE WIRED THE SAME AS A HUMAN’S. IN ORDER TO TEST THIS THEORY, RESEARCHERS
AT M-I-T MONITORED THE BRAINS OF RATS. THEY FOUND THAT A RAT’S BRAIN ACTIVITY WAS
IDENTICAL WHILE BOTH AWAKE AND ASLEEP, MEANING THAT THEY DREAMED ABOUT THE DAY’S EVENTS.
SURE, RATS AND CATS ARE VERY DIFFERENT SPECIES, HOWEVER, THIS STUDY LEADS RESEARCHERS TO BELIEVE
THAT ALL MAMMALS DREAM… ESPECIALLY CATS! I MEAN, HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MUCH THEY SLEEP?
THE AVERAGE HOUSECAT SLEEPS NEARLY FIFTEEN HOURS A DAY AND SPENDS TEN PERCENT MORE TIME
DREAMING THAN HUMANS. PLUS RESEARCHERS BACK IN THE 1950’S AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF LYON, FRANCE, ACTIVATED CATS MOTOR SKILLS DURING REM SLEEP.
WHILE SLEEPWALKING, CATS ACTED OUT PLAYING WITH TOYS, POUNCED ON AND SWATTED AT IMAGINARY
PREY. WHILE M-I-T SAYS THAT THOSE EXPERIMENTS DO
NOT DEMONSTRATE ACTUAL DREAMING, IT ONCE AGAIN SUGGESTS THAT A BRAIN FUNCTIONS THE SAME WAY
DURING SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS. DREAMS ARE REALLY JUST THE BODY’S ATTEMPT
AT UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION BEING PROCESSED IN THE BRAIN.
SO AS NEURONS ARE FIRING, THE BRAIN CONSTRUCTS A STORYLINE TO FIT.
IN FACT, YOUNG ANIMALS MAY DREAM EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE TIME WHILE ASLEEP BECAUSE THEY HAVE
SO MUCH NEW INFORMATION TO INTERPRET. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR CAT IS DREAMING ABOUT?
LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS BELOW. MAYBE IT’S THE NEXT BIG CAT INVENTION!?
SO NOW, I’D LIKE TO THANK OUR SPONSOR MEOW MIX FOR HELPING SUPPORT OUR SHOW. MEOW MIX
BELIEVES CATS HAVE DONE A LOT FOR THE INTERNET SO NOW THEY’D LIKE TO RETURN THE FAVOR BY
CREATING A PLACE ON THE INTERNET WHERE CAT LOVERS CAN DO A LITTLE DREAMING THEMSELVES...DREAMING
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I LOVE YOU ALL, BYE!