What do blind people dream about?

Answer 1

Same stuff everyone else does. They are not retarded, just sight impaired.

Answer 2

They dream about the known and also the unknown. About what they have heard or felt or touched.
Here is an interesting analysis of a study conducted:

The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." ie; they do not really have visual dreams. When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc.

Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it?

Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images.

But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like).

Answer 3

There are many sources for dreams, some important ones are the sensations we get from touch, taste or what we see around or hear. Still the most important reason besides SEEING is our THOUGHTS. If a person is blind since birth, then except SEEING, all other sensations and thoughts are responsible for a blind persons dreams. And if a person is gone blind later in his or her life, then even what he or she has accumulated in ones thought process and experiences, also plays a major role. Now what do they dream about. Just everything like every one of us dreams about. One more thing, everybody on this earh have dreams. Only those persons who enjoy very sound sleeps just dont remember what they dream and those like ME, who never had sound sleeps, do remember what they dream. However, there are many other factors related to DREAMS and even it goes into ones past lives, conscious, un-conscious and sub-conscious minds as well.

Answer 4

I think that would depend on when the lost their sight. If they were born blind then they might just dream of abstract thoughts and sounds. They probably dream visually, too...their view would just be skewed. You can tell what things look like without actually seeing them through texture and shape...feeling it. You could always ask a blind person. But if they lost their sight in an accident or something then I'm sure they dream visually like others do.

Answer 5

The question is a good one. I hope a blind person answers it. Do not ridicule this, because most of our dreams are visual--based on things we see. Imagine a dream where you see yourself in the third person, yet you never have seen what you look like before? Yeah, exactly. You people suck.

Answer 6

Why do you think blind people dream any differently than you do?

Answer 7

Blind people dream like we do, I imagine.

Answer 8

good question Ive thought about this before,if they had gone blind from an accident or illness probably the same as most people.but if they are blind from birth i don t know, they wouldn't know what anything looks like would they?

Answer 9

About not being blind!

Answer 10

Dreams come from Ur brain, dork. that has nothing to do with the cranial nerve #1 that allows u to see

Answer 11

the same as everybody else just because theyre blind they cannot see