SPIDERS DREAM

Do spiders dream? Behavioral ecologist Daniela Rössler from the University of Konstanz in Germany thinks so. She had caught a jar full of jumping spiders for an experiment. When she came home from dinner one night, though, she noticed something strange – they were all hanging from the lids of their boxes, suspended motionless on silk lines. She realized they were sleeping. And then, she bought a night-vision camera, aimed it at a sleeping female spider, and saw its legs start to twitch, along with her abdomen and even her silk-producing spinnerets. The movements lasted a little more than a minute and occurred periodically throughout the night. She says the spiders were uncontrollably twitching in a way that really looked a lot like when dogs or cats dream. Therefore, she believes, spiders dream.
* She couldn’t wait to put her theory on the web.
* Rapid Eye Movement in spiders with eight eyes. That’s pure nightmare fuel.
* Imagine being a spider with restless leg syndrome.
* One common spider dream is that they’re sitting there on their web in public and their fly is open.
* Another is they’re bitten by a radioactive human and get superpowers.