David Peña-Guzmán: Because it dawned on me that there wasn’t a single book out there about the dreams of nonhuman animals. There are plenty of amazing books on animal consciousness ...

“We have this idea of dreams being a confabulatory narrative with kind of crazy, vivid elements to it,” says Matthew Wilson, a neurobiologist at MIT. “But when we look into animal models we ...

became interested in animal dreams after he “stumbled upon” some research experiments on sleep in other creatures. “There wasn't very much out there on the dream worlds of other species,” he says.

While most writing on animal cognition has focused on their waking lives, Peña-Guzmán turns his attention to what their brains might be doing in sleep. Dreams, he proposes, are more than ...

Anyone with a dog probably takes for granted the existence of animal dreams. Watch your pup’s legs pound the air as they yip drowsily, and it’s hard to think of an explanation other than an imaginary ...

In his new book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, philosopher David M. Pena-Guzman of San Francisco State University argues the science shows that animals really do dream, ...