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Recently i have been mindlessly staring at my tortoise while he was asleep, and he started moving around, it was about 10 minutes later he opened his eyes, most adorable thing ever
What is this life if full of careRecently i have been mindlessly staring at my tortoise while he was asleep, and he started moving around, it was about 10 minutes later he opened his eyes, most adorable thing ever
I don't know, if we had a way of reading brain activity, the way they do with humans in various sleep studies, we would know whether or not something is going on. As to whether or not the dreams consist of crazy visuals featuring exaggerated humans and freaky dream plants that don't exist in reality, who is to say? I've read that the primary sense used by tortoises is smell, so I have to wonder if their dreams are just a complex, textured world shaped by their sense of smell? It would be interesting to uncover more of what they're actually thinking. Maybe one day they will invent technology to where you can zap your consciousness into that of a tortoise, experience what it's like to be them for a day. It would also be awesome if they could translate their body language into words to facilitate one way communication. But the more I think about such things, the more ridiculous they seem.
T.G.
Which is what I said, twice, 'no evidence',I didn't say they don't, though I don't believe it, it is, indeed, just an opinion.There is also no evidence that they don't dream. Lack of evidence of REM sleep can't be taken as proof.
Yep that was proof positive of a nightmare. Are you sure you didn't snore & wake her up ???I think my tortoise had a nightmare yesterday, quite funny. Was fast asleep, breathing increased, all of a sudden, eyes opened up, and bolted straight across the vivarium. Faster than I have ever seen her move to dive bomb into her water dish and sat there for 5 minutes before going back to sleep.
No ... But i was sat there in the dark staring at her, naked, waiting for my GF to get home from work at 2am ... I'm known as the tortoise stalker in my household.Yep that was proof positive of a nightmare. Are you sure you didn't snore & wake her up ???