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A look into the #REM #dreams of the #animal kingdom
If #octopus and #cuttlefish #dream, “it just kind of blows down the walls of what we think about humanity being so special,” behavioral #biologist Teresa Iglesias says. There’s still debate over what REM is even for. “No one really knows what the function of sleep is — non-REM or REM,” says Paul Shaw, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/a-look-into-the-rem-dreams-of-the-animal-kingdom/