Prue DeAraugoDo babies dream?
June 16th 2008 04:00
Yes, they do according to Dr Charles P Pollack from Centre for Sleep Medicine at New York-Presbyterian hospital. The reason he knows this is they have REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. This explanation seems a bit flimsy to me. When asked what a baby dreams about, he cannot tell you, because you cannot ask a baby to describe their dream.
I remember in the first few months after Samantha was born watching her grimacing wriggling around or smiling in her sleep and wondering, if she was having a dream, but I am still not convinced she was.
Young babies have no experience of life, especially in their first few months, when all they do is eat, sleep and poop. So surely, they cannot be dreaming in pictures the way we do. How can you dream about objects you have never seen, therefore have no knowledge of?
I suppose she was dreaming about a big breast with a pink nipple on top. On the other hand, maybe she just had wind.
What do you think?
I remember in the first few months after Samantha was born watching her grimacing wriggling around or smiling in her sleep and wondering, if she was having a dream, but I am still not convinced she was.
Young babies have no experience of life, especially in their first few months, when all they do is eat, sleep and poop. So surely, they cannot be dreaming in pictures the way we do. How can you dream about objects you have never seen, therefore have no knowledge of?
I suppose she was dreaming about a big breast with a pink nipple on top. On the other hand, maybe she just had wind.
What do you think?
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