Share your stories and opinions with us here. You can now write for and be a part of the community. But the question is, what are nightmares about? Humans? If spiders are really dreaming then they must be dreaming about flies. In a separate interview with the Washington Post, Rößler said, "Whether that means that they’re visually experiencing this similar to how we experience visual dreams is a completely different story." Study's lead author Rößler, who is a biologist at Germany’s University of Konstanz, told Scientific American: "They were just uncontrollably twitching in a way that really looked a lot like when dogs or cats dream and have their little REM phases." But the finding actually "begging the deeper question of whether jumping spiders may be experiencing visual dreams". So, therefore, you’re less likely to see a spider during the day time. Importantly, the researchers have said that how spiders are said to be sleeping is close to the sleeping patterns of humans. Many spiders are nocturnal meaning they will only (or mostly) come out during the night, this helps to not be a potential meal for predators, because most of a spider’s predators are diurnal meaning they will only come out during the day. "While jumping spiders cannot move the lenses of their eyes, they can move their retinae to adjust their gaze-with muscles enabling axial, rotational, and directional movements of the entire retinal tube within the prosoma," a part of the study read.
Amidst terrible fomo seeing all the cool conferences, I’ve been dying to share the news of our latest discovery ? You thought jumping spiders peaked in their coolness? Buckle up!!! We need to talk about #jumpingspiders potentially #dreaming.