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We all have an anecdote or two about real-life sensations—the smell of cooking food, the noise of thunderstorms, or the pressure of a full bladder—that made appearances in our dreams. It’s not that rare for external stimuli, when they happen to occur during dream-producing REM sleep, to be incorporated into dream content. Becca Krock discusses one such case, involving dreams, drums, and an impatient cat.
Read MoreBobcats like to chase laser pointers. At least, Moses the bobcat, of Big Cat Rescue, does. As entertaining as I found the sight of a bobcat pouncing at a glowing red dot (which is to say, very), I was more struck by the sight of the eyes, luminous in the darkness. Like any proper biologist, I googled “feline eye glowing”. Allow me to introduce the tapetum lucidum a layer of highly reflective tissue found behind the retina of many vertebrate species that provides, essentially, a second chance at photon detection.
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