Do Animals Dream
Introduction:
Having various animals growing up I have always wondered what they were doing while they slept. Did they just lay there in a deep sleep or could they have the capability of having a dream? This is a question I have never answered over the years and would like to explore now to find out the answer. I've watched different pets throughout my life while they slept but could never tell if they were dreaming. I noticed that different kinds of animals sleep in different positions and I ask myself, "does this effect if animals dream?" When I was younger, I had several cats, some inside and some outside, and they all acted differently. The cats who stayed indoor would find a corner or something soft to sleep on, even each other. I really don't know where the outside cats slept all the time. I do remember seeing them under the porch asleep and under cars. I was too young to remember if they looked like they were dreaming or just sleeping.
As I got older, I got a dog for a pet but I don't really remember much about it. Although, the whole time I was growing up my dad had fish. There were always fish swimming around a tank and I can not for the life me remember a time that they would be sleeping. They were always moving or just being still and looking. Fish are interesting animals because it's hard to know or even tell if they sleep much less dream. After my daughter was born, we got some cats and then two hamsters and later some goldfish and finally a Chihuahua. The cats that we had were twin cats named Tigger and Tiger. They didn't get much sleep at the time because Robin, my daughter, was around two years old and was constantly doing something with them. If they did dream while t...
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Edgar Allan Poe was a crazy man; however, he was one of the best story and poetry writer in the world history. He wrote the short stroy “The Tell-Tale Heart” one of the most widly known literature pieces he wrote. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of the most suspenseful storyies I had ever read. Just saying that made me want to write this: Edgar Allen Poe keeps the reader in suspense in “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the use of great detail, use of first person narrating, and the noise he uses to create atmosphereic pressure.
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In Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, commodity is viewed as a substantial component. In this world, the ownership of an animal indicates upward social class adaptability. Because of the extinction caused by World War Terminus, real animals seem to be more expensive than electric animals. People aim to own real animals, as it shows that they can afford the luxury of owning one. According to Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter based in San Francisco whose job is to retire androids, “owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. And yet from a social standpoint it had to be done, given the absence of the real article.” (Dick, 9). An animal being genuine means it is costly, and the more expensive a person’s chosen animal
The first question that is going to be addressed in this paper is “Why do you dream?” There are many reasons why people dream. There are many reasons why people dream. One theory as to why people dream is that “dreams help us sort and place the day’s experiences into our memories. Deep, slow-wave REM sleep stabilizes our memories and experiences, converting them into long-term learning” (Baird p.96). Another theory is that your brain is always firing neurons; even when you are unconscious. The neurons that are being fired are the ones that are responsible for creating images and the limbic system (emotions). This results in your brain weaving these signals together. Therefore creating dreams. The last theory is that dreams play a main part in cognitive development. According to Baird “The brain activity associated with dreaming may help to develop and preserve neural pathways… The way dreams change over time also seems to indicate a developmental role.” (Baird p.97) The older you are the more your dreams change. When you are an adult your dreams t...
Why does a cat always have that grin on their face when they are sleeping? And they sleep a lot. Entire day they’ll stretch and curl in sound slumber, and at night they go out for the hunt. How everyone envies them. Anyway, what those lazy cats really see in their dreams? Whatever they see, it has to be wonderful, maybe a rat, maybe that’s why they have that grin while sleeping, definitely not a dog, otherwise they won’t have any stupid smirk.
Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? introduces the reader to a society in which the persons or beings present are heavily influenced by two major and alike figureheads: Wilbur Mercer and Buster Friendly; the prominent figures of society each have the apparent purpose of the unification of a society divided by the presence of androids and humans: two beings inherently different. Although Mercer and Friendly approach the unification process differently, both characters are similar in the fact that they fill the void in the lives of those in society by presenting themselves as trustworthy deities.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Brave New World take place in dystopian futures. Technological advancements have been beneficial to society, but at the cost of the citizens’ humanity. In Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep?, Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who kills Androids who have escaped from other world colonies. The Rosen Corporation creates the androids to mimic humans to a point where it is hard to distinguish between the two. In Brave New World, the World State is responsible for genetically engineering humans. These “humans” do not have any of the characteristics of a modern day human. Humans are emotional creatures. People in the World State lack all emotion, unlike in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, where the only distinguishing feature between humans and androids is human empathy. Technology is used to alter emotions in both dystopian worlds to a point where none of the people are genuine. In Brave New World, people are artificially created to be like machines that benefit society, whereas in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, both androids and humans have a presence and lack of humanity.
No animal shall sleep in a bed – It changes to: No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
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When you stop to think about it, our ability to understand what goes on in a typical Hollywood film is shocking. Images jump from one to the next with little to no linearity. Perspectives jump around as if a person is spinning and floating around, and music and sounds emanate from nowhere and everywhere at once. The lights dim. Your body shifts about to get comfortable. It’s not bed time however. It’s time for a movie! The strong correlation between our film watching setting, and our dream making setting is too closely tied to be considered mere coincidence. Colin McGinn, author of The Power of Movies, in chapter four titled “Dreams on Film”, says “A child has to learn to read before a literary narrative can be processed, but watching a film requires nothing much beyond the capacity to dream” (113). McGinn argues that the reasons we are able to understand film so easily and readily, is because of our ability to dream. In dreaming, we create visual fantasies that seem to reflect memories and images we experience in our own lives. We might wake up in a heavy sweat, a confused state of mind, or a smile on our face, and it is these same emotions that can be brought about by film. Our ability to create and consume film stems from our innate ability to imagine and understand dreams. Robert Rodriguez’s film adaptation “Sin City” is a perfect case study of how film and dreams are interrelated.
Despite the large amount of time we spend asleep, surprisingly little is actually known about sleeping and dreaming. Much has been imagined, however. Over history, sleep has been conceived as the space of the soul, as a state of absence akin to death, as a virtual or alternate reality, and more recently, as a form of (sub)consciousness in which memories are built and erased. The significance attributed to dreams has varied widely as well. The Ancient Greeks had surprise dream encounters with their gods. Native Americans turned to their dreams for guidance in life. Shamans dreamed in order to gather information from the spirits.
I have a love for cats. Ever since I was a teenager I always wished for a cat of my own. When I moved in a three story apartment in California, the Manager of the complex said that cats were allowed in the units. I mentioned to my Aunt at the time that I was searching in the newspapers under advertisements for cats wanted. One cool breezy evening, my Aunt called me and said that a friend of her's named Judy had a cat named Katie who did not get along with her other two cats. So I agreed to meet with Judy to see if I'd love to adopt Katie.