Say baby, what you dream?

Responses scientists are still hypothetical about dreams Baby. One thing is sure, at night, it Cogitate!

What's more cute than mine Baby concentrated when he sleeps deeply and then suddenly the smile or frown as if a question, the capital, had to arise in his mind? This range of facial expressions is hiding secret intense life ...

Well, whatever the proponents of the "baby-vegetable". Few grams of soft full of love not only sleep blissfully they dream! and not just ...

8 hours a day dream!

You knew that already, many babies sleep, the newborn flying the record with 16 hours per day, per period of 3 to 4 hours. But did you dream that 50 to 60% of the time is 8 hours a day! Various experiments have shown that sleep is divided into several phases, accompanied by signs. Read the article on the train sleeping

You've always noticed that the "restless sleep", when baby shows mimic called "social" (smile, surprise pout, disgust, pain) that would almost believe he is awake. The brain electrical activity is intense, eyes move under the eyelids, small fingers agitated, etc..

It's the equivalent of sleep "paradoxical" in adults, during which we dream.
But the most surprising is that baby was already dreaming well before they are born ...

Dreams are essential to its development

Thanks to advances in ultrasound, it is possible to observe the twentieth week of gestation the fast movements of the eyes and fingers, signs that the fetus dreams too ... By the end of pregnancy, sleep "paradox" is indeed most of his "naps" as in the first months of life.

But why so much and especially at this time? In fact, the researchers suspect these phases of dreams to play a role in the development of central nervous system, therefore the brain at a time when Baby lack of external stimuli.

Even more surprising, these phases would be essential in the process of memory and even, according to another theory, "re-programming genetics.

They avoid that learning accumulated in the day too impregnate memory. In reliving the dream in its way, baby forge its own identity. This explains why, despite an identical environment, each toddler remains different .