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Newly released footage from The Rockefeller University in New York suggests that octopuses may experience sleep disturbances and nightmares. Postdoctoral researcher Eric Angel Ramos filmed an Octopus insularis named Costello in a laboratory for four weeks, observing it jolting out of sleep and flailing around on four separate occasions. Two of the four thrashing instances resulted in Costello releasing black ink into the tank, which is commonly done by octopuses in the wild for defensive purposes. The researchers believe Costello “may have been responding to a negative episodic memory or exhibiting a form of parasomnia” and that more studies are needed to understand cephalopod sleeping behavior.

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