Do animals have nightmares?
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Ohhh yes they do!!\nEspecially higher mammals like dogs and cats.\nTheir brains are put together a lot like a human brain and when they sleep it does the same mysterious stuff our brains do every night or during napping. \nI know it's true because I have watched my sleeping dog twitch and move his legs and even have rapid eye movements!!\nThe info can be found from the source I provided.\nIt's very cool research! Good question!
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i can't remember what dream. if go to sleep right after  eating, i have nightmares. definite they're not inspiring, more scary
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Hey Bro..... only in their dreams...( but they spout it as fact )\n\nI think they need a life....maybe they could 'evolve' one.
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The most recent studies in dreams say that YOU are the best interpreter for your dreams. Animals and objects in dreams probably don't have universal meaning for everyone. Dreams tend to reflect your life and emotions. So, what in your life does that relate to? Are you going through anything where you feel like you have no escape or are in serious danger? Look at your life and you'll find what your bull means.
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Everyone dreams... even dogs dream\n\nNot everyone has the capability to recall their dreams but most that don't can learn to recall them.  Here is a cool discussion / web site on the subject.
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Yes, sometimes a person can grimace in anger so extremely they seem to be grinning.\n\nMany animals "grin" when they are scared.
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No.\n\nCarry a hedgehog as well. That ought to do it.
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Doctor, Doctor, I keep having reccurring nightmares.  One night I think I'm a teepee, the next I think I'm a wigwam.\n\nI know the problem - you're just two tents!
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There is no scientific evidence citing any room colors that would elicit nightmares.  However, if the child relates the color to something traumatic or scary (e.g. from TV or stories), it could act as a retrieval cue for memories related to that traumatic scene.  I would suggest bright colors, as they are less oftenly related to frightening scenes in films and the general media.
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It is completely unclear whether they actually do. There seems to be some evidence for both sides of the argument. When the tsunami in East Asia hit it seems that the local dogs and cats and assorted wildlife in a variety of protected habitats were killed alongside the people, not a trace of an exodus before the fact. \nMost stories of an animal sixth sense are anecdotal and have not been scientifically studied (how could you scientifically study anything to do with a completely unexpected calamity anyway?). \nSo far it isn't really clear whether that sixth sense is an individual thing in animals, or part of their sensory early detection system or just a myth.
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i had a recurring dream for years when i was younger. In my dream i am walking through a dark forrest, being chased by flying monsters, i reach a clearing, and on the hill see a large yellow castle, i'm with my sister, and we enter the castle to be faced with a medusa type person, who pulls a trapdoor and we fall into a pit of snakes, just as they close in my sister disappears and I wake up...if you can decipher this i would be pleased to hear about it..i must have had this dream at least once a week for about 5-6 years!...
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Sometimes, dreams and nightmares, as I've read in a fairly recent Reader's Digest, is our mind's way of preparing for something. We run the situation in our head, and we try and see what to make of it. For instance, if you've been thinking of that job promotion, you might have a good dream if you're totally up to it, and you'll be rolling in the dough at home, and so on. If you're not too confident, then you might get a nightmare about all of the things that go wrong. In a sense, we use those thoughts that invade our minds as we sleep as a form of preparation. A dream is a desire that we want, a nightmare is the worst case scenario. In either case, we can learn from them - learn what we want, learn what we fear, and learn how to make what we want happen.
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I believe they do.  Once, I was having a difficult time during lent, and an angel came to comfort me.  His arm was like a sheild, but I didn't see him.  His presence was instant peace.\n\nAnother time, I felt as if a Dire Wolf was in the same room as me, ready to tear me apart.  It was a frightening experience.  I very nearly forgot to breathe!  I could see it infront of me if I closed my eyes.\n\nMaybe I have an over-active imagination, but it seemed to me that it was real.  The presence of these ethereal creatures was tangible, and outside of myself.  It's kind of like walking out into the sunshine from the dim interior of the house.  The atmosphere changes.\n\nPlus, I've read all kinds of stories of how people were saved by guardian angels, or tormented by demons.
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One of my worst nightmares I've ever had (I basically used to have one horrible nightmare a night up until recently) was where like either I didn't have a head or maybe I had part of a head, but every morning for some reason I had to slip on this dead, cut off, gross, head over my existing head, and it was heavy and I could feel the cartilage and the skin was gray and it smelled and it was sooooo gross.  Also, another worst nightmare was in this yellow wheat field, a bunch of us were standing around, the sky was gray, and then hundreds of black crows/ griffen looking things came flying out of the sky and started to attack this man, eating him alive, and we just stood there and watched- and I saw this in my dream- he was being eaten down to his muscle, down to his bone, I saw his skull exposed even, and then he just collapsed.  Those are just two of my memorable dreams that I had...I have tons more.  Most of my dreams are weird, I like them, but they are not the traditional definition of good/ best- they are in different worlds.
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haha, yeah, i have zombie dreams too and they're scary.\n\nso, i'm not a psychologist, or a dream analyst or anything, but i've spent more time than it's worth thinking about why it is that zombies are so scary. and i've come up with several important elements that zombies can represent.\n\nfirstly, they're dead. they're corrupted, rusty and rotten and maggoty, and they move towards you and try to take you in.  this is viscerally very upsetting. we spend our lives in complete denial about death and decay, and so having to face it in such an up-front and non-negotiable way is very frightening. around autumn i always get the heeby jeebies about zombies... i think it's all the dead leaves and bare trees.\n\nsecondly, there's how they mob you. mobs are terrifying, even ones made up of living people, and the confrontation of their powerful and violent collectivity with your powerlessness and individuality gives feelings of overwhelming hopelessness and loneliness and despair. \n\nThirdly, there's how they attack you. zombies are slow moving, but they always seem to get you, don't they. they always come out of the shadows, or from behind you, or from your blind spot. the reason that this is so terrifying in your dreams is that we, as visual animals, KNOW subconsciously that our weakness is that what we can see ISN'T always what's out there. So if your brain is concocting a zombie nightmare, the zombies will always get you from the shadows, or from behind you... because that's the kind of attack that we are most vulnerable to.\n\nthere is additionally, the sense of betrayal which is implicit in zombies. people we love and know and trust will "change sides" and will betray us and attack  and bite and kill us, without even acknowledging even briefly the world you once shared with them, or even recognizing you! the death of relationships, and refusal to recognize that it even existed is a VERY powerful fear. Think about how betrayed lovers speak. they ask questions like "did you EVER love me? didn't our time together mean ANYTHING?" when you're attacked by the zombies of people you know, you ask the same thing. scary. \n\nFinally, there's an oppressive tension in a world full of zombies. there's no home, nowhere safe, nowhere to rest and dream peacefully. No other monster movies really capture this tension as well as zombie movies do... \n\nso yeah, spreading corruption, fear of an overwhelming and oppressive mob, attacking us in ways in which terrify us the most, and the death of love, and the atmosphere of tension. zombies can be scary for a lot of reasons. also, biting is kind of scary. \n\nif you're having lots and lots of zombie dreams, it could mean a bunch of different things. you might be worried or anxious about something in real life which shares a common element with the zombie dream. or it could be something else. I got a lot of zombie dreams when i was on this one antibiotic once, and i also discovered that i have zombie dreams when i sleep near a heater and my mattress is too hot. so it might be chemical or environment causing nightmares, and the nightmares might just be zombie nightmares because they scare the crap out of you and that's what nightmares do.\n\nso before you go psychoanalyzing yourself, look around and see if there's an external element causing your nightmares. good luck.\n\n(oh hey, as i was writing this i realized... don't you think that zombies would smell really bad? you could probably tell when one was sneaking up behind you by the smell... so don't get scared. if you can't smell them, it's just a dream! hahaha!)
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no.\nbut it doesn't mean it can't happen.\nwe still don't know exactly the biochemistry affecting dreams, and specifically nightmares. we can't even be sure there is a unique chemistry to nightmares.\neating cheese before bed-time might change to a small extent the chemical balance in your brain, but it probably changes as much as many other different foods. \nfrom the little we do know about brain-chemistry, metabolism of food and the connection between both, it seems improbable that this is true, but hey - be your own guinea-pig :)
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Lots of things can cause recurring nightmares. Really hard to say. Maybe your worried about something. Maybe you need to talk to someone.