Octopuses are some of the most intelligent creatures and I, too, have seen dogs dream. So, it really does not surprise me that an octopus dreams. Or that really

Octopuses are some of the most intelligent creatures and I, too, have seen dogs dream. So, it really does not surprise me that an octopus dreams. Or that really any organism with a brain can dream. Oversimplification, but dreams are just a certain form of brain activity during sleep. If an animal sleeps, I would wager that it probably has some form of "dream". There's no reason to assume that other similar species don't dream. Do other species dream about the same stuff we dream about? Probably not exactly, but I imagine their dreams are a rearrangement of what their brain typically perceives on a daily basis. Maybe an octopus dream consists mainly of digging in the sand at the bottom of the sea and feeling nice and cool and safe, because that is their day-to-day experience. So I guess what bothers me is the way the article is framed -- as if another species "dreaming" is somehow completely unusual. It's very anthropocentric, I suppose. I've seen gorillas, dolphins, and monkeys do some extremely smart shit. There's something going on there, and I figured this was something everyone has accepted.