Pets & Dreams

It's National Love Your Pet Day and Dangerous Dave talks about how we view our pets. Plus, a new study on dreams and who remembers them.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please step in the den with dangerous Day. Today is
National Love your Pet Tay, which means it's time to
bite your tongue and force a smile your cat claws
up your furniture. In a recent poll, forty four percent
of people said they consider themselves a dog person, eighteen
percent of cat person, twenty five percent love them equally,
fourteen percent said neither. Seventy seven percent of dog owners

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say they believe their dog knows them very well. Another
twenty percent said their dog knows them somewhat well, meaning
three percent do not think their dog knows them at all.
In fact, twenty percent say their dogs know them better
than their friends and family. Sixty one percent of cat
owners say they believe their cat knows them very well,
another twenty nine percent said their cat knows them somewhat well,
and ten percent said their cat doesn't even pay attention

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to them. Seventeen percent say their cats know them better
than any humans. As for the type of relationship, twenty
six percent of dog owners say they're best friends with
their dogs, twenty three percent a pet parent, and sixteen
percent consider them a companion. Thirteen two percent say they're
just an owner, and twelve percent said friend, four percent
consider themselves master, two percent roommates, one percent said their

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dogs servant. I think that's probably mostly the case. Things
are different with cats. Twenty one percent said their cat
owners their parents or companions fifteen percent friend, fourteen percent owner,
twelve percent best friend, five percent servant, four percent consider
themselves roommates, and three percent consider themselves the master. But really,
when it comes to the pet, the master really is

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the pet. Deeper in the two, if you ask somebody
about their dreams, some people can describe them in vivid detail,
and others can't remember anything. Well, there's a brand new,
comprehensive study out there. Three factors contribute to whether or
not you can remember your dreams. First of all, the
person's general attitude towards dreaming. People who view dreams as meaningful,
we're more likely to remember them. Typical sleep patterns also

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make a difference. People who typically have longer periods of
light sleep with less deep sleep better remembering your dreams.
And I'm mostly in light sleep, so I remember my dreams,
and most of them are pretty vivid. Tendencies to let
your mind wander during waking hours, that's me as well.
Participants regularly caught themselves daydreaming, engaging in spontaneous thoughts during

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the day, most likely to remember their dreams even overnight.
They also found younger people better remembering specific dreams, while
older people more frequently have white dreams. That's when you
know you dream something, but you can't remember anything about it.
Daydream fluctuates, dream fluctuate seasonally too. People remember fewer dreams
during the winter months compared to spring and fall. Still

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a lot of mystery surrounding dreams, But this is just
another step and how to understand how our brain processes
and stores memories during sleep. I dream frequently, and a
lot of times I wake up and go, why did
I dream that? Sometimes you just wonder to yourself, should
I check myself in someplace? Too? Many can for another
episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave Plight

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