Dreams In Adult Dogs

It was also suggested that dreams occur more in puppies than in adult dogs. Puppies dream more since they have many newly acquired experiences that their brain needs to process, and these affect and are shown in their sleeping time too. Adult dogs usually have REM sleep 10-12% of their sleeping time.

FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE DOGS DREAMING

For humans, dreams are nothing but merely your mind that is still analyzing and thinking of things that have a very high impact on you while you are sleeping. Basically, it is also the same with dogs. Hence, external factors such as weather, temperature and other things do not quite affect how your dogs dream.

External factors can only affect a particular dream if it plays an important role on your dog's life.

However, it is strongly believed that dogs dream about what they can see in their waking life and these experiences can be one of the factors that affect their dream.

The age of the canine will also affect the quality of the dreams since puppies have more experiences that they need to process, hence, they have more frequent dreams. It is strongly believed that dog sizes can also affect dreams since dogs with different sizes have different dream times as well.

The amount of sleep a dog needs may also affect the quality of its dreams. The amount of sleep being required is tantamount to the size of your dog too. If you have a larger dog breed, then you should expect that this breed require more sleep. On the other hand, small dog breeds may stay awake most time of the day.

Another factor that can affect your dog's dream is the amount of activity he has during the day. Activities that your dog engages in may either tire him out or make him more hyper. Such activities will affect your dog's sleep cycle and amount of sleep, thereby, affecting your dog's dreams too.

HOW LONG DO DOGS

When dogs have nightmares, these dreams are probably more concrete and are likely realistic and revolves in real life threatening dangers that your canines are experiencing every day.

DO DOGS HAVE WET DREAMS

Do dogs have dreams with regards to sexuality? Okay, this question might be out of the context since this is too personal for dogs. Not that they care about what people think about them, right? However, the question on whether dogs also experience wet dreams as humans do is a very interesting topic that we need to address.

Since they dream of having nightmares and the like, it is also sensible for us to say that dogs are also thinking of sexually satisfying scenes while they are sleeping. Well, we can even see how dogs can be when they mate in public. So what's stopping us to think that they are not doing it when their minds are at peace and resting?

For us to be clear on the answer if dogs actually have wet dreams or not, I think that it is best for scientists to further study this side of the dog's dreams. After all, many people are curious on what the answer is and to enhance our knowledge about what we need to understand regarding our dog's behaviors when they are on