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Do octopuses dream? Neural activity resembles human sleep stages

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The Role of Sleep in Octopus Sleep Patterns

During the active sleep, their brains are acting like they're awake. This is accompanied by wake like neural activity. So it seems that the octopus, when it's asleep, is reactivating, it's waking skin patterns.

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