do congenitally blind people have dreams at night?

Question

if they do ,how do they percieve people and things ?and how can they figure out what is what?

Answer 1

While there may be exceptions, in general the dreams of the congenitally blind contain no visual elements and consist predominantly of sound plus smell, touch and the sense of movement.

Plotwise they tend to to be reality-based--e.g., a reprise of the events of the day--with less of the fantasy you find in the dreams of sighted people. There's also more conversation.

Persons who become blind after birth often see in their dreams, although it depends on (a) how old they were when they became blind and (b) how long it's been since. If you're blinded before the age of six or seven you generally see little or nothing in your dreams.

Dreams of people who become blind when older are often indistinguishable from those of the sighted, but as time goes on many "see" less and less.

To some extent, I gather, the lack of visual elements in the dreams of the blind can be counteracted by force of imagination. Helen Keller, who became blind at the age of 19 months, claimed to have "visions of ineffable beauty." These ran to things like pearls.

To my mind this betrays a certain want of ambition. A man's reach should exceed his grasp, right? So I'd want to see what I could work up along the lines of Jacqueline Bisset. But at least we know there's hope.

Answer 2

They can not. In our dreams we do see people and places we have never seen before. But we know how a person look like and buildings look like. SO we imagine different situations we have been before. But a blind person who have never seen anything before can not have dreams like our dream. Mostly the sounds and feelings. Not even color

Answer 3

Well, how do blind people perceive other people when NOT asleep?

No, blind, deaf and any other sense deficiency you care to name do
not stop you from dreaming even if you have never had the sense.

You dream about the senses you have, perhaps about the senses you
remember, but we have no clue about dreaming with the perceptions
that you never had.

Answer 4

Everyone dreams. I have had dreams of things I have never seen before.

Answer 5

They dream at night, only with sounds and color.

Answer 6

I'm sure they have dreams of just sounds, possible colors.

Answer 7

I wish we can pick some good questions and give some points, I don't know the answer but is a good question.

Answer 8

dreaming everyday
everyhour