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d_dude
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I was wondering what babies dream of, if they even dream. Before they have memories, and maybe when they're still in the womb, what do they dream of? If you die in your sleep, do you finish the dream you started?

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sasquatchcarrot
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There are 2 parts to the sleep cycle, N.R.E.M. (non-rapid eye movement) and R.E.M. (rapid-eye movement) your dreams occur in the R.E.M. stage of your sleep. If you die you lose your ability to move, which means your eyes can't rapidly move back and forth. this proves dead people can not dream.

Ernie15
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I can remember the end of a dream I had when I was two years old. Is that normal?

If you die you lose your ability to move, which means your eyes can't rapidly move back and forth. this proves dead people can not dream.


I think the fact that you can't think when you're dead already proves that.
knight_34
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The answer is:babies dream of dead worlds.

TackyCrazyTNT
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Before they have memories, they probably dream of nothing. But when they are infants, they probably dream of colors and sounds.

samy
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When they're taking little baby snoozes?

MageGrayWolf
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I was wondering what babies dream of,


I remember dreams when I was an infant of a big white dog and giant doctors coming at me.

Before they have memories, and maybe when they're still in the womb,


The ability to have memories starts in the womb. And yes babies dream in the womb.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413185734.htm


what do they dream of?


No idea, if I was to guess it might be abstract images of the sounds they have heard.

If you die in your sleep, do you finish the dream you started?


No, on top of what sasquatchcarrot said brain activity ceases with brain death. Granted it's likely rapid eye movement would stop before the brain fully dies.
darkrai097
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Knight! You stole my answer. Whatever. Babies probably dream about random abstract shapes and colors.

Stormtrooper1
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lol knight_34 and darkrai097, that's what I was thinking of. But I think that babies probably dream, but forget it.

jsparrow
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babies dream of a world where everyone has boobs so they are never hungry lol

Darkroot
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babies dream of a world where everyone has boobs so they are never hungry lol


It's unlikely they could put together such a concept.

They just probably dream of, hey I HAVE AN IDIEA since some of us are older we can ask a scientist to do a brain scan on a baby and see what they are dreaming of because i saw a show which is possible...sooo yea


You can't scan a brain and see what it's dreaming that's preposterous. But with cognitive research you can safely assume it's just a jumble of their perceptions. Nothing of real interest, since at that age they cannot form complex thoughts.
d_dude
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I think they dream of red cozyness, you know, like a womb.

TheGr8est
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what do teenagers dream of?
Wow i like that idea, maybe I will start a thread about it.

skater_kid_who_pwns
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What do babies dream of
When taking a baby snooze
Do they dream of drinking bottles


You know this is ridiculous

sambam
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What do tigers dream of? Do they dream of mauling zebras ?

MRWalker82
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I was wondering what babies dream of, if they even dream.


Babies, like every other animal that enters REM sleep, do dream. As for what they dream of, we cannot even begin to guess. If we use the content of OUR dreams as any sort of idea, though, it is reasonable to assume that they dream of just about anything which they have ever experienced through any of their senses.

If you die in your sleep, do you finish the dream you started?


Not possible. Once you are dead your brain is no longer active and thus cannot experience anything at all.
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