what do blind people see in their dreams if they have never seen anything in their entire lives?

Answer 1

I once asked a friend of mine this question who'd been blind from birth. He said his dreams were filled with the same kinds of sensations he had when he was awake: sounds, feelings, aromas, tastes, thoughts. As far as he could tell, because his brain had never experienced visual images, it had none of them to "replay" in his dreams.

Think about it, though: If you'd always been blind and didn't know what seeing was like, how would you know if parts of your dreams resembled "seeing" or not (as opposed to, say, especially vivid thoughts)?

I guess the only way to answer this question would be to find a person who had always been blind, then somehow gained their vision---and ask them if they remembered having visual dreams before they could see. I tend to doubt they would, though---any more than we could imagine another _type_ of perception without actually experiencing it.

Okay, I've done a bit more checking on this. Apparently, it's widely agreed that people who've been blind since birth do not see images when they dream. In the words of one person:

"What [the blind] see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory [sound] dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I’ve met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30."

Here's an interesting page about it:

Do blind people dream?
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1354374

Cheers, Ander

Answer 2

I have always heard that the brain chemistry is such for every one as far as transmitters. I am a nurse and noticed it a patient loses a limb that they continue to have pain in that area for years.The mind is set up to not know how to signal that that is missing. Maybe the same with blind people. I could be congenital affect, but the transmitters are the same and therefore they can see dreams due to tramsmitters. Just a thought. I noticed when Ray Charles had dreams, he had been able to see as a child and his dreams where what he had seen. This is deffinately a miracle and only God knows. You can look this up in the medical information stuff on line. There is an MD.com and questions forums, just look around. Now you have me interested in why. They call losing a limb phantom pain.

Answer 3

There are two categories of blind people
(1). Who are blind by birth : These people do not see colors in their dream. Their dreams includes only noises & emotions.

(2). Who became blind due to any happening in life: These people see colors in their dreams but the intensity of the colors is associated with the time when they last seen the colors in their original life before being blind.

Answer 4

WWWhat sweety blind people imagine what they would love 2 see in their dreams they dream about how things might look and how beautiful things are, many blind people create their own world in their imagination. They dream of the impossible.

Answer 5

The soul doesnt need eyes to see what the brain dreams up

Answer 6

they have never seen anything .they don't know what things look like, what r colors ?so they may don't see dreams like us, they only think even during asleep.they think of their lost eyes,their problems in life ,and also imagine of world .

Answer 7

I asked the same question to my psychology teacher and I was amaized when he told me that they have normal dreams and that they can see things while sleeping. Sorry, but I don't remember the explanation that he gave me about this fact!

Answer 8

You have ask a blind person.

How many do you think will see your question?

Answer 9

A big giant sex organ. :) It's wet and smells fishy. Oh wait, that's the fish they're sleeping with. hehe.