Do spiders dream? A new study suggests they do.

Spiders may sleep like humans, study suggests

NEW YORK CITY: It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep?Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The footage showed patterns that looked a lot like sleep cycles: the spiders' legs twitched and parts of their eyes flickered.The researchers described this pattern as a "REM sleep-like state." In humans, REM, or rapid eye movement, is an active phase of sleep…

New Study Suggests Spiders Snooze Just Like Humans

Footage taken of baby jumping spiders showed patterns that looked a lot like sleep cycles: The spiders’ legs twitched and parts of their eyes flickered.

Do spiders sleep? Study suggests they may snooze like humans

It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep?

New scientific study suggests some spiders enter sleep state similar to humans

A new scientific study suggests that some spiders are capable of a state similar to a human’s rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which allows us to dream.

"Do spiders sleep?": Study suggests they might doze off like humans

It’s a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep?

Spiders may experience REM sleep, study suggests

A new study suggests that spiders may experience sleep cycles similar to humans.