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It's just the brute fact that they dream that, in my view, has these pretty fundamental moral implications. It means that those animals have moral interests that we are obliged to take into consideration. And those can include their interest in not being harmed, their interest in continuing to live, their interest in cultivating and pursuing their own life projects unimpeded by human action, and so on.
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Rats that have been physically tortured have nightmares — evidenced by increased heart rates, breathing and the waking up right before they renter R.E.M sleep.
Interestingly, rats that have witnessed the torture of their fellow animals also tend to have bad dreams.
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I often wonders what my dog dreams about when her legs are running in her sleep.
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