Captain Cat Capturer

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.

aries; "bro if he called me daddy i'd slap him in his fat forehead"

taurus; "the best life is to have a rich working husband... and THATS WHY im marrying james charles"

gemini; "mcdreamy and mcsteamy.. NOW THEY'RE BOTH MCDEAD" *sobs*

cancer; "great, now you made my foot sad"

leo; "i can sleep for 10 hours and still wake up ugly"

virgo; "why? because the guitar man told me to" *wheeze*

libra; "HEY SIRI, CALL JOJO SIWA"

scorpio; "i meannnnn.. my sim had a 3way while she was in labor" *shrugs*

sagittarius; *in awe* "imagine being swarmed with tiny hammers"

aquarius; "BEARD MAN FELL DOWN THE STAIRS!"

capricorn; "thats it- im telling my cats they're adopted"

pisces; "speaking of drowning, i miss swim class" :/

None Pizza with Left Beef is 10 years old today.