It is rare to find a person who has never seen a dream in his sleep. But why do people dream? 
Its importance or how much? Science has not been able to give the correct answer to all these questions. But only humans possess this strange ability? A group of scientists raised this question in the sixties. It is even more difficult to answer this question standing where the human dream-mystery itself has not been clearly resolved. But the experiments started from that time. And the results of those tests are quite surprising.
This story begins with a cat. That was in the early 60s. MIT researcher Mitchell Jowett chose the cat as the subject of the study. Researchers identify the time during sleep when people dream, called rapid eye movement or REM sleep. Jouvet observed that cats' heart rates increased abnormally during REM sleep. At the same time contraction-expansion begins in the muscles of the cat.
Juvet could not quite come to a conclusion. However, he thought that his pet cat was hunting for prey in the dream. At least that's what the muscle posture suggests. Cats move their muscles during sleep just as they do when jumping or running.
At that time, as his research was praised by a group of scientists, it was also laughed at. Mexican researcher Peña-Guzman re-examined his work in the 1990s. He also expressed almost the same opinion.
Almost a decade later, a surprising experiment shocked the whole world. 2001 year that. MIT neurologist Dr. Matthew Wilson released a cat and a rat into a maze. But he made this maze in such a way that the mouse could not reach the cat even if he tried. Wilson did the same thing several times initially. After three days, the rat was left to sleep in the empty maze. And that's where the magic happens. With its eyes closed, the rat traversed the entire path without encountering any collisions. It should be noted that this experiment was one of the proofs that animals also dream and that any real event makes their nervous system awake during sleep.
Juvet could not quite come to a conclusion. However, he thought that his pet cat was hunting for prey in the dream. At least that's what the muscle posture suggests. Cats move their muscles during sleep just as they do when jumping or running.
At that time, as his research was praised by a group of scientists, it was also laughed at. Mexican researcher Peña-Guzman re-examined his work in the 1990s. He also expressed almost the same opinion.
Recently, a group of researchers from San Francisco State University observed similar examples in the case of zebrafish, a special fish, spiders and birds. They even collected the pulses of the nervous system and showed that during REM sleep, the activity of a particular part of the brain increased abnormally. With which memory is also closely connected. A special article titled 'The Hidden World of Animal Conscience' has also been published by the American University on the sleep-vision of wild animals. After all, it is only a matter of time before the scientific acceptance of this theory that animals also dream.
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