What do blind people dream when they have never seen the world at all? Do their dreams have color also?

Question

Here is a tough question, i'm really willing give 10pts for the person who can answer this question nicely.
Blind people who have never seen this world and they also don't what does "color" means.. Do do they dream? And do their color have colors? Since they even don't know Black & White, their dreams also cannot be Black & White. So what will their dreams like?

Answer 1

There was a study done on this a few years ago that I can't find on the web right now...
Basically, it showed that a very small percentage (something like 2%) of people blind since birth reported "seeing" images in their dreams. As one other poster stated, most reported dreaming about sounds, feelings, and other sensations that they have experienced during waking hours. The small number that did "see" things in their dreams apparently couldn't describe them very well in words to the researchers, and sometimes couldn't make much sense of the imagery in their dreams (not surprising since they had no context to put it in). They also couldn't describe whether the dreams were color or not, again having no context in which to put colors for comparison.

Those that could once see -- even if they were blinded at a very young age before the brain was fully developed -- all had images in their dreams. Some of the ones that were very young when blinded, just like with the blind-since-birth groups, couldn't describe things very well.

Dreams are usually related to what we experience during waking hours, even if that relationship isn't always very clear...so it makes sense that the results were as above. I'll try to find a link to the study...

Answer 2

I heard an interview on the radio with a person who has been blind his entire life. He said he dreams of sounds. There are no images or colors in his dreams because he just doesn't know what those are.

Answer 3

There truly is not any thanks to inform for particular yet i'd assume that they does not. once you dream your options is sorting information and builds desires in conserving with reminiscence. The blind man or woman, had they been blind for his or her finished lives, would haven't any reminiscence of sight. One would then assume that they could't see of their desires. even if: they'd be able to through genetic thoughts. Animals bypass genetic thoughts through 1 yet another naturaly for the benifit of a species. it really is the reason people clearly worry and bounce on the sight of a coiled snake. (some human someplace alongside the line replaced into bitten through a snake after the snake assumed that possition so as that human exceeded this reminiscence on. there is an chance that Blind human beings might want to construct desires baised on genetic reminiscence.

Answer 4

I guess we’ll never know, I mean what if they create their own pictures in their head of what they think something looks like. But they might actually dream of stuff they know, like a chair or a dog, someone could describe to them what an object is etc. well all I know is my heart goes out to them..

Answer 5

That's a question you would have to ask a blind person. How can we imagine something we don't know anything about. What about a color blind person. My brother-in-law is color blind. I was curious so I asked him about it. If your curious then ask a blind person. Don't think they would be insulted by you asking.

Answer 6

a blind man (who was once able to see) said he 'sees' fuzzy little dots, kinda like a tvm station not coming in right. he said that about when he was awake. im sure they dream about what ever they 'see' in the day with voices and noises. no one can actually say, im sure a blind person couldnt describe their dreams to anyone. they may 'see' such abstract things, that we couldnt understand even if they could properly explain it to us. hope this helps a little

Answer 7

I think it all depends on the actual "person" but most that have never seen anything just dream about sounds and feelings
read this it might help understand:
http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/section/Everything_Else/Humans_and_Animals/983040715.htm

Answer 8

They probably dream about sensations they feel much more intensly than you do.