Sleeping Octopuses [Octupi?] May Have Dreams, But They're Probably Brief

NPR ^ | March 25, 202111:00 AM ET | NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE

[BenLurkin]

Seen cats moving their paws in their sleep. Always figured they were dreaming of chasing the can opener around the kitchen.

[Fungi]

“despite being separated by more than 500 million years of evolution.” Prove it.

[a fool in paradise]

8 times as likely for their arm to go to sleep.

[DannyTN]

In the brief dreams of Octupi, they can walk on two tentacles, breath air and have opposible suckers.

[Deaf Smith]

"maybe dreams help their impressive unusual brains consolidate memories and important task"

*Food, sex, repeat.

[moovova]

“8 times as likely for their arm to go to sleep.”

Yeah, but they’re 8 times faster inking a deal.

[ealgeone]

No telling how much money was wasted on this “valuable survey”.

[odawg]

Octupi probably have nightmares over being so ugly.

[oh8eleven]

LOL!

[decal]

The plural is “octopodes” - took all of ten seconds to we search.

[EvilCapitalist]

Sort of like Squidward from SpongeBob Squarepants.

[csvset]

For some reason as I was reading this article,I thought of Elvis singing ,
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand a

[DoodleBob]

[dfwgator]

[DoodleBob]

Sea Bears hate limping more than running!

[Texas Eagle]

[Texas Eagle]

[Robert DeLong]

Believe it or not, both octopuses or octopi are correct when referring to multiple octopus. I still think octopussies sounds more natural rolling off of the tongue. 8>)

[Viking2002]

Oh, my cat has very vivid dreams. Sometimes it seems as though he's on the hunt, or some other pleasurable adventure; other times, he seems in distress and makes very vocal sounds, as though he's afraid or in pain. Once, I had to gently wake him up from a dream that seemed particularly bad; it took him a moment to come out of it, and when he did, he had a very fearful look in his eyes, and was actually panting from fear. Intelligent, developed animals do dream.

[ETL]