A recent eLife article revealed that Dr. Hugo Spiers (of
University College London) and his esteemed colleagues have managed to
determine that rats dream about where they want to go in the future. They
accomplished this feat by identifying specific patterns of neuron activity in
the rodent brain’s hippocampus region. They claim that the neuron activity
patterns when a rat is asleep just before conquering a food maze are similar to those when it awakens and
actually gets to the food. Understand? It appeared to these ‘scientists’ that
the rodents plotted how to defeat the maze and get to the food…in their
‘dreams.’
Well,
that’s settled then!
I
wonder where all they want to go? Heaven? Arby’s? Congress?
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