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Aww. Mine occasionally make that warbling sort of noise that they also make when they're excited by birds outside the window. So I assume they're dreaming about stalking little birds and mice... and foam soccer balls... and twist ties (just to name a couple of the things they love to fling all over the house).
Trilby talks in his sleep too. It's very cute, actually, because it's low volume and the noises are surprisingly human-sounding — squeaky little murmurs like a baby makes.
I have speculated on what if anything he's dreaming about. Treats perhaps, or life before neutering.
Lucy talks in her sleep too, when she's in the middle of a big dream with her paws, whiskers and mouth all twitching. It's cute as hell, but if I get the camera she always wakes up and I never capture the moment.
I think Lucy's best dreams probably involve her having to eat her way out of a swimming pool filled with Whiskas Katzinis. She'd kill for those things, I swear.
Senator sniffles and huffs and squeaks in his sleep too. My favorite is when I am holding him and he wakes himself up by accidentally twitching his face into my arm.
I haven't heard my cats talk in their sleep, but Kaylee (the dog) does fairly often. It's mostly little burfs and paw twitching, but it's sometimes little growls and whimpers.
A neuroscientist friend once told me that someone had done brain scans on sleeping cats, complete with electrodes and stuff. (Don't make me give details. It's been 10 years or so since I heard this.) Anyway, he said they found that when cats dream, it's the muscles and the part(s) of the brain involved in hunting and pouncing that are most active. From this, they concluded that cats dream about catching prey, which I think is kind of sweet. Zuzu's dreaming about her little mouse toys!
Galahad the cocker spaniel woofs in his sleep. It sounds like a Macintosh "Wild Eep."
Eeeeevery so often...once or twice a year...Saedy the otherwise very, very quiet Aussie dog howls in her sleep. It's a single bell-howl, starts very quiet and ramps up, up, up. Lasts quite a long time. It's an eeeeeeerie sound, particularly coming from a dog who barks a couple of times a month. And also particularly when it wakes you up from sound sleep.
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