What Does a Cat Dream About? [research study]
Insights gleaned from studying cats
In 1979 a neuroscientist dreamed of asking a question that perhaps humans cannot answer. He wrote about his dream and about how much of it he was able to realize or dream that he had realized. This is what he published:
"What Does a Cat Dream About?" Michel Jouvet, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 2, 1979, pp. 280-282.
The author, at Claude-Bernard University, France, explains:
"It is the field of experimental neurophysiology that has permitted us, through a detailed analysis of the neural mechanisms of PS [paradoxical sleep], to open the door to the ethological study of dreaming or 'oneiric behaviour' in the cat."
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