Silly question: Does your horse dream...like a dog chasing rabbits?

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A strange question I know, and not one I thought I'd be asking after many years around horses - but here goes........

I got to the yard today to find one of my horses lying flat out in the field. As I approached I expected him to hear me and sit up, as he normally does if you approach when he's fully lying down. To my surprise he didn't flinch and then I thought I saw him move a hoof. I dismissed it but my husband then jokingly said to me "Did you see that, he's at Aintree again!" Obviously, I berated said hubby for being absolutely ridiculous.

However, on closer inspection, my boy was indeed flicking his hooves and titching his upper lip too. Unfortunately, I didn't have my phone so I couldn't record it.

A silly post but I was curious if you had ever seen a horse do that?
 
Yep! My two year old gallops in his sleep! He also squeaks and whickers in his sleep. It's sooo cute! When I worked at a showjumping yard we had a stallion who would have wet dreams! Try explaining that to your boss's 7 year old daughter!
 
Yes, I have video evidence of my youngster doing this, twitching away like the little freak he is :)

As for the stallion. Wow... That's a new one on me! :D
 
Yep he'd stand there with his "equipment" hanging out and it would start waving about and before long it was slapping off his belly! I had to usher the gobsmacked child away at that point!
 
yes moss particularly thrashes about like she is galloping across the sand kicking out groaning and wickering real funny
 
Interesting thread!

On another forum there is some debate whether horses think. And if they think, how do they think? Obviously not in words, so presumably in pictures. Maybe that is why we are always told to finish a lesson on a good note. I wonder if that can be improved on? Train a piece of behaviour and then hope the horse goes away to dream/think about it?

I know that works with dogs as I've trained siblings and, for one reason or another, had to leave one in the kennel while training continues with the other. Often the one left in the kennel comes out more advanced than the one I've concentrated on...but then maybe I'm just a bad trainer!:rolleyes:

Not a silly question at all but probably one of the most interesting I've seen on here.
 
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