The Unknowable Enigma of Babies' Dreams
   dream--and, if they do, what they dream about. "Getting inside the head
   book Why We Dream, the psychologist David Foulkes theorized that
   children seldom remember their dreams before age 9. Foulkes continued
   his research into pediatric dreaming over the decades and in his 2002
   book on the topic concluded that humans are dreamless in their first
   "can dream one as well." Instead, he found that children don't start
   dreaming until they're a few years old and can imagine their
   surroundings visually and spatially. Even then, he argued, the dreams
   start to having graphic, storylike dreams; this phase of life is also
   psychologist Alison Gopnik. Insight into the science of dreaming has
   dream, noting that "it is a well-based inference" that they do so
   REM sleep is when most dreaming occurs for humans. During this phase,
   studies dreams, REM sleep is also believed to help people consolidate
   commonsense view," as a result, "is that yes, babies are dreaming--they
   Those who dispute the idea that babies dream, according to Bulkeley,
   of material to transform into a dream. But Bulkeley cited evidence
   suggesting that dreams serve at least in part as the body's instinctive
   biological function of dreaming is to simulate threatening events, and
   made this dreaming mechanism advantageous.
   from someone, for example--a dream theme that's found across cultures
   case, then it's conceivable that babies dream as a result of natural
   birds dream, too.
   dream isn't feasible, at least with today's technology. Some of the
   best available data on adults' dreams come from self-reporting in the
   to use abstract words until age 3 or so. Scientists who study dreams
   may dream about on their way to full personhood will remain a mystery.