Baby dreams?

Do babies dream?
I saw Cass just this morning making noises and then began to cry out in her sleep. She rolled over and then cried out again. So I picked her up and she woke just fine. What do you think, Can babies have dreams/ nightmares?

i think if we can, they can. <3.

I say yes, but they aren't as vivid and colour ful ( Imean the weird shit we dream) I think theirs is more everyday. Piss cries and whines in his sleep sometimes, too.

Anyone who has watched a sleeping infant's eye activity has wondered if babies dream and what they dream about. Babies do, in fact dream, more so than adults. According to Science magazine, babies dream more in the first week of life than they will at any other period in their lives. As babies grow and their brains mature, the amount of time they spend in the REM state gradually decreases. The REM state is directly linked to brain development. A maturing brain needs less and less REM sleep. This is why adults dream less than babies.

So, we know that babies dream. What do they dream? Do they have nightmares? Science magazine reports that in REM sleep, the visual part of a baby's brain is more active than that of an adult, so babies have vivid visual dreams. The truth is that there is no way of knowing what babies dream since they are unable to speak or describe their dreams. It would seem that any event or sensation worth crying or smiling about is meaningful enough to dream about. To get an idea of what a baby dreams about, one must first try to imagine what life for an infant is like. A baby's world is very different from that of an adult. Imagine being able to only experience sensations and events, not the consequences, rewards, or reasons behind them. Imagine having feelings but being unable to express, interpret, or label them. Imagine being able to attach meaning or identification to only a handful of the thousands of images seen in daily life.

Given this insight, one can speculate as to what a baby dreams about. Anything a baby smiles about or enjoys may be the subject of pleasant dreams. His parents' faces, the contentment of a full tummy, a warm bath, and memories of playing and laughing earlier in the day are things a baby might dream about. Any visually pleasing image a baby registers during the day might also flicker through his dreaming mind.

Quoting Flounder♥:“ I say yes, but they aren't as vivid and colour ful ( Imean the weird shit we dream) I think theirs is ... [snip!] ... might dream about. Any visually pleasing image a baby registers during the day might also flicker through his dreaming mind.”

Thank you! That was very informative. I imagined Cass dreaming of a full bottle comming at her mouth or the jumperoo lol

Yeah they do, and I saw on the discovery channel that they start having 'dream like reactions' in utero as early as 12 weeks.

I figure Colin probably dreams about boobs a lot.

C.

my daughter asks us if her baby brother dreams, especially when he smiles in his sleep. we all tell her the same thing our moms always told us... they dream about angels. she has asked quite a few members of my family and since we all heard this she always gets the same answer lol.
i know it wasn't the empirical answer you were looking for but i thought i would throw in what i  think.

Quoting God:“ I figure Colin probably dreams about boobs a lot. C.”

  


I think thats what my kids were dreaming about when they were babies.


Sometimes Georgia and Dawson will start giggling while they're asleep. Its kinda creepy, but cute at the same time lol

Quoting cassondrahumphrey:“ my daughter asks us if her baby brother dreams, especially when he smiles in his sleep. we all tell her ... [snip!] ... the same answer lol. i know it wasn't the empirical answer you were looking for but i thought i would throw in what i think.”

I really like your answer tho. It's sweet and innocent.

If you've ever seen the South Park movie where Kenny is greeted in heaven by giant women with huge boobies, then you know what Cash dreams about.  

Quoting AQUAmarine:“ If you've ever seen the South Park movie where Kenny is greeted in heaven by giant women with huge boobies, then you know what Cash dreams about.  ”

Cash dreams of giant tubes of Crest  

Quoting *Arrogant Alpha Erica!*:“ Cash dreams of giant tubes of Crest  ”

Someday those dreams of Crest toothpaste and whitening strips will be fufilled.

Quoting AQUAmarine:“ Someday those dreams of Crest toothpaste and whitening strips will be fufilled.”

Someday.
I'm going to whiten mine before Rog gets home.

I love when Kat dreams but at about 8 months (which is I believe on the early side) Kat began having Night Terrors which are hard to wake her from and have so far caused two incidents of apnea.