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Learyfan
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Animal dreams
#1570348 - 05/22/03 08:19 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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I wonder what animals dream about.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Learyfan]
#1570355 - 05/22/03 08:21 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ya !!!! It's funny... I've seen cats run and fight in their sleep....
Even make mouth noises as if they were eating !! LOL
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Learyfan]
#1570463 - 05/22/03 09:09 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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have you ever seen the movie Milo and Otis?
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Zero7a1]
#1570510 - 05/22/03 09:27 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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hehe i love the movie milo and otis!
i never see my cat do anying in it's sleep. but my dog barks, and twitches a lot. sometimes when she barks, she wakes herself up hehe, it's funny.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Learyfan]
#1573066 - 05/23/03 06:47 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't know why, but I bet they dream about sex a lot.
Seriously.
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Milos and Otis is the f'uckin hizzy to the shizzy. My childhood would have been much duller without that movie.
My dog goes crazy when hes dreaming. I think he fantisizes about killing mailmen and destroying furniture.
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I don't know why, but I bet they dream about sex a lot.
I've never known a dog to ejaculate in his sleep. But I donno, they might do that.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Learyfan]
#1573552 - 05/23/03 10:44 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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I wounder too, the other day i woke up, still half-asleep, sitting up i saw the cat in a dreamy 3rd eye manner, craw on the bed. I open my eyes to look and theres no cat.
Dreams have just gotten powerful lately!
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Awww i guess you're not "the one" then?
lol (just a joke no offence )
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: cleaner]
#1574337 - 05/24/03 10:06 AM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dreams cannot be described. I bet they are cool though, cats always seem to like sleeping.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: cleaner]
#1574461 - 05/24/03 11:58 AM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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No offense taken, "The one" is only character. There truely is no one, only many.
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I was reading a transcript of Julian Jaynes talking (The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind). He was saying that animal dreams would be very different from human dreams. He doesn't believe animals are very conscious if at all (consciousness meaning self-awareness). This is why you sometimes see cats interact with themselves in mirrors. They look at the mirror and can't get it through their head that they exist and that they are looking at themselves, because to them they don't exist or whatever.
Anyway, he says that dreams are basically the brain firing away causing familiar movements to happen. So a dog dream isn't like our dreams.. they don't imagine running through the woods and catching the deer, but their feet twitch because they are a familiar neuro pathway (or whatever they're called). Because humans have a rich internal world going on in their mind our dreams aren't just muscle twitches. We have all kinds of things going on in our mindspace. A symptom of consciousness according to him is this mind space which is an analog to the outer space of the world. When we understand something we say "I see." See what? The idea conveyed floating in the landscape of our mind. We express ourselves like "the idea is in the back of my mind." The back is a location in space.. This space is where we are when we dream, and because other creatures don't have this space developed (and according to Julian Jaynes nobody before 800 BC did.. which means we weren't conscious back before then) then they don't have dreams full of imagery. Just muscles twitching..
I guess we can never know for sure, but I thought this was interesting.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Dogomush]
#1574859 - 05/24/03 04:39 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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Why do cats respond when you call them. I dunno but alot of things seem to point to animals having self awareness. I cant really think of any real diffrences in lifestyles. Maybe im wrong, but cats and dogs seem like little people who cant dont need to speak in words.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Dogomush]
#1574878 - 05/24/03 04:52 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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and according to Julian Jaynes nobody before 800 BC did.. which means we weren't conscious back before then
hmmmm
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Why do cats respond when you call them.
Self-awareness isn't required to respond to your name. When you call your dog it sets off a trigger that makes them come. I'm not decided on whether or not all animals are unconscious. Some good arguments I read in The Origins of Humankind by Richard Leaky is that consciousness has evolved because in a social animal's life, it's very important to be able to lie and cheat. Consciousness helps this a lot. When you lie you might twiddle your fingers, play with something, be unable to keep eye contact, and these are giveaways, but if you are self aware then you know how you behave in these situations and you can alter how you project yourself and also you are better at sniffing out lies in other people. When the guy tells you something but can't keep eye contact you think "Hey I do that when I lie to people" and then you know he's lying. It's a way around having to learn every nuance in body language piece by piece through experience.
Some scientists did this thing with chimps: They put a box with a remote trigger to open out in a field close to some chimps. The box was full of bananas. Chimp A walks by, and the box opens revealing its treasure. The chimp checks it out and then when chimp B came into the field, chimp A closed the box and sauntered away as if nothing of interest was going on. Chimp B acted like "I didn't see nothing" but stuck around pretending to be interested in other things. When Chimp A left thinking the treasure was safe and intending to return later chimp B went and hooked up the bananas. This could be a sign of consciousness in chimps because so much trickery would be difficult to do without self-awareness. Maybe.
hmmmm
Yeah it's a funky theory. I haven't read his book (not enough pictures) but I've read some essays. Basically he looks through old parts of the bible, sumerian writings, and stuff by homer.. iliad and the oddysey. What he finds in these old bits of writing is that humans don't navigate the mindspace. They don't use terms like "I see" when communicating ideas.
One thing he brings up is that the first kings of mesopotamia weren't human.. they were wooden heads. Also, it's very common in these unconscious, or bicameral, cultures is people have tons of Gods. Everybody has a God, every town has a God, and so on and so on. People have idols in their own homes which they worship and communicate with, somethnig we don't have (don't confuse religious idols with religious icons). The bicameral, pre-conscious people have these kinds of imaginary friends.. these voices in their heads which tell the automaton that is the bicameral person what to do in times of stress. The first kings of mesopotamia were wooden heads because people could hear the voice of these idols in their heads and they would delegate out the work.
Eventually the idols are phased out by consciousness. We have our own voices in our heads. The reason bicameral cultures haven't continued is because eventually the society becomes too complex and there are too many voices saying too many things and everybody does different stuff and eventually everything falls apart. When a conscious culture falls apart then they can revert back to being bicameral. Babies are born undecided.. they can go either way depending on the way people are around them. Lots of kids have imaginary friends... these are what would eventually become idols and voices in their heads telling them what to do, but through cultural conditioning the kids lose these imaginary friends. Schizophrenia is also a throwback to the bicameral mind. People can't cope with the voices because they don't go with the rest of society.
I guess a kind of natural selection occurs where on a long enough timeline the conscious culture emerges, and then it spreads like wildfire. The bicameral cultures can only grow so large before they become too big and fall apart. The mayans had this problem.. they kept building up and falling apart because they never made the leap from bicameralness. Because there is this population limit the conscious cultures will always be more unified at large sizes which means more power which means they topple bicameral people like dominoes, and any bicameral child raised in a conscious culture will become conscious.
Interesting stuff, but I don't know if I believe it. I haven't read his book, though, so who knows. I'm waiting for the comic book version.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Dogomush]
#1575646 - 05/25/03 12:11 AM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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Very interesting.
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Re: Animal dreams [Re: Learyfan]
#1576429 - 05/25/03 02:02 PM (20 years, 10 months ago) |
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The Adventures of Milo and Otis is my favorite movie of all time.
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