Can Blind People See In Their Dreams or Do They Just Hear Voices When They Dream???

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Answer 1

I saw a program a few years ago and a man who never had sight was given sight - I can't recall what his problem was but obviously it was solvable. He had never seen his wife's face, nor those of his kids. After he gained his sight, the reporter took him out and about and pointed out things this man was used to handling and feeling and were a part of his every day life. He was asked about one item and it bogled him, had no idea what it was just by sight and then he was told it was a can of Coke.

Without having sight, people blind from birth have no conceptual notion of what the shape, size, colour, etc., of anything is - based on sight - so have no basis for visual dreams, however, there may be light and colour but no actual scenery as you and I may know it. Imagine a haze of rainbow colours or a haze of light.

Any translation by the brain of the physical item and its supposed visual appearance is, at this time, beyond our comprehension and, I think, difficult for a blind person to explain to us.

Answer 2

I watched a documentary that mentioned this. Blind people who were born blind cannot see in their dreams, and just hear. Blind people who were born with eyesight and went blind later in life can see in their dreams, at least some of the time.

Answer 3

ask blind person. differs with the individual. and if they ever saw.. that will change what / how they see in dreams.
do you dream visuals of things yo never saw, but heard or read?
this is a good question to ask the braille institute.or an independent living center for the disabled. get informed!

Answer 4

you prefer this answer? confident, I do hear myself think of. I extremely have been deaf on the grounds that 1972. this is while i became disabled out of the army. I now talk ASL, am a graduate of the national technical institute for the deaf in Rochester long island for my first college degree, and function 2 extra from the common public college gadget in Texas. i'm engaged on 2 extremely expert technical AAS stages genuine now and could then choose for a masters degree. probably an MBA. So are we deaf and dumb? Or can we hear ourselves think of? And are we in simple terms as in a position as you, fool? Or not? I extremely have on the brink of 500 college credit hours and between 3.0 and 3.5 Gpa in any respect I extremely have attended. So am i able to think of? and hear myself think of or not? same as all you that still hear?

Answer 5

I don't know about the blind from birth, but others dream!

Answer 6

I agree with meagan of the swamp

Answer 7

Hmm. I guess their mind wouldn't let them see since they don't know what anything looks like!!