if born blind do you have visual dreams?

Answer 1

No because your brain never saw anything. It can be anything, because you eventually can realize what things look like by other people telling you. So it's never going to be exact, but something might eventually.

Answer 2

Dreaming is an overwhelmingly visual experience for sighted people. About half of all dreams also have auditory sensations, but in two large-scale studies less than one percent had gustatory, olfactory, or tactual sensory references (Snyder, 1970; Zadra, Nielsen, & Donderi, 1998). Kerr (1993) suggests that the extremely visual nature of dreams may be why many people wonder if blind people even dream. This wonderment may explain why the presence or absence of visual imagery in the dreams of the blind has been of scientific interest since the early nineteenth century. A series of questionnaire and interview studies since that time have led to four empirical generalizations (Kirtley, 1975):


There are no visual images in the dreams of those born without any ability to experience visual imagery in waking life.

Individuals who become blind before the age of five seldom experience visual imagery in their dreams, although Deutsch (1928) reports some visual imagery in six schoolchildren who lost their sight before age five.

Those who become sightless between the ages of five and seven may or may not retain some visual imagery.

Most people who lost their vision after age seven continue to experience at least some visual imagery, although its frequency and clarity often fade with time.
Studies of blind participants in sleep laboratories using awakenings during REM periods to collect dream reports have shown results similar to the questionnaire and interview studies (e.g., Amadeo & Gomez, 1966; Berger, Olley, & Oswald, 1962; Kerr, Foulkes, & Schmidt, 1982).

The substantive content in the dream reports of the blind has received less attention than the presence or absence of visual imagery. However, Kerr, Foulkes, and Schmidt (1982) found few differences among four congenitally blind, two adventitiously blind, and four sighted subjects between the ages of 19 and 32 with 16 REM and 10 NREM awakenings per subject over a period of eight weeks. This conclusion is based on ratings by the subjects themselves on 22 dimensions of the dream reports.

Answer 3

No those people dreams are made up of sounds, smells and sometimes touch sensations. However those who became blind in life still dream visually.

Answer 4

No. I have worked with visually impaired children and I asked what sort of dreams they have. They have dreams with the other senses that they have ie, voices, touch, smell but not visual dreams as they have never seen anything..but they do still have dreams.

Answer 5

I read once that these people DO dream, but they are not visual dreams. They are "touchy feely" dreams with interesting smells and sounds.

The other senses expand to make up for the one that's missing.

Answer 6

The human can only imagine or dream up things that he has experienced. So in short -NO

Answer 7

Unfortunately,No...

Answer 8

thtas so easy to work out i wont bother saying the answer

Answer 9

how odd good question never thought about that sorry i cant help

Answer 10

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