can a blind person from birth,have an imagination?

Question

im not insulting blind people at all. all i want to know is do we have to see images in order to imagen them in our minds/

ok thats good!some people are understanding what i mean by the question.im not at all insulting the blind community.thanx! there are some good answers.

Answer 1

Think people are taking your Q the wrong way.
They must have an imagination.
But i understand what you mean, without seeing objects ever, will their imagination and dreams can't be like ours in the way we visualize it be in different ways.
It's like that film with Val Kilmer as a blind man who gets given sight, although he can see he's still mentally blind as for example he knows what a car sounds like and what it does but he had never seen one and was still blind to the danger of them.

Answer 2

Of course the blind have an imagination, probably a hell of a lot more imaginative than yours and mine.
What you should of asked was, "If you're blind from birth, how can you imagine things that you've never seen" - things the sighted take for granted, things such as trees, sky, grass, cars, other people etc... We know they're there and there's no need to make a mental note so imagining the shape and colours is a straightforward mental process.
On the other hand it's also puzzled me how the blind imagine what a dog looks like only from a description, sound,smell,touch.
One things for sure, the blind maybe blind but they can see perfectly well in their imaginations.

Answer 3

No I think that the imaginationn and being unable to see are two separate issues

Our imagination is how we would perceive things.
Blind people have the sensory concept in the touch and smell but not in sight despite this I believe they can compensate by the other senses.
Touch becomes far more enhanced as does smell.
to describe something to some one who is blind you need to be able to find a word that they know.
Describe a sunset to some one who is blind but do not use colours....
A sunset is like a hug something that gives warmth, blind people have a rich imagination to help in perception of many things they do not see.

Eye is not the only resource for knowledge it is no problem ot talk to a blind person about nature colour or even the stars in the sky at night.

Try closing your eyes and ask someone to describe something like the sensation of hot/cold.

Answer 4

Yes, they do have an imagination.

They can not ‘picture’ stuff as it were (how you describe the colour red?), but an imagination is something other than picturing stuff. Writing music, songs, engaging in politics, doing higher physics etc (the man that thought of black holes could have been blind, he probably wasn’t, but still even if he could see, no ones ever seen one.)

Anyway it’s a bit like this thing I saw where these indigenous people had never made a number system, they had numbers for 1, 2, 3 and more than three. If you showed them a pile of rocks one batch with 15 the other with 20, they couldn’t tell you which had more.

If you’ve never seen the sky, your never going to know what it looks like, and your never going to be able to picture/imagine what it looks like.

Answer 5

I think the big mistake here is to think, even for a second, that all seeing people have one sort of imagination, and that all blind people have another sort of imagination. Just two sorts of imagination: how boring would that be!

It is quite clear to me that each individual, no matter whether they see or not, hear or not (or whatever their sensory status!) has a quite different capability for imagination. Each of us is unique in this respect. We imagine differently, and we use our imagination differently.

I'm really delighted that this is the case. It is part of affirming that we are all human and individual, to understand that no two people imagine exactly the same! It also puts emphasis on the importance of communication, for to accept that we all imagine differently is to accept that we need to be able to tell other people, somehow, about our ideas and visions, precisely because we cannot assume that they have had identical ones!

So, in summary, each and every person has an imagination. That imagination is unique to each of us, and that attribute is an important part of what makes us human!

Answer 6

Yes! Well They have a mind That Can Imagine! A world is Boring For them So they have to Imagine. . And if A Bind Imagines It can See the World Of it's Own!

Answer 7

We are all blind to one degree or another. Have you ever tried to see beyond the visual spectrum? We "see" but a small small fraction of that stream of energy. Does your imagination shorten by the length of the energy wave you are witnessing? Your question implies intelligence levels are a factor of vision. We all suffer from some limitations of reality due to brain capacity and sense interpretation.

Answer 8

They have four other senses through which they know the world around them and their mind can move beyond that knowledge to imagine further - it would be less visual but otherwise may be even more potent - such as creating a new type of music.

Answer 9

Definitely yes, my friend.

Imagination is a thought process which can individual on earth can possess.

It doesn't really matter if you are blind. The only difference could be that the person who is blind might require a translator to put it on paper. Or the other possibility could be that he/she can use the Braille language to convey this thoughts.

Answer 10

you need a powerful mind to have imagination! the blind man has more power than a man who can see! bec the blind man has to touch things like flowers or a cat and imagine wht is it! where as other just look at it!

see.. blind man would have more imgaination than a not so blind man! he can imagin a green flower with red leaves! where as our mind would block that out!