2006-10-20 22:08:21 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory 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. "
2006-10-20 23:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc.
Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it?
Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images.
But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like).
2006-10-21 01:00:57 · answer #2 · answered by sycamore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I am sure all things with a brain dream. The majority of blind people are extremely bright because they have increased their brain to imagine what they can not see, if they have been blind from birth.
2006-10-20 22:28:52 · answer #3 · answered by Denise 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure they do... dreaming is to do with brain activity during REM sleep, although we don't know the exact mechanisms or how they evolved. As our dreams are usually grounded (at least partially) in our environment as we inhabit it, it is likely that a person who has never seen (ie blind from birth) would not have visual experiences, but their dream world would be made up of auditory, sensory and olfactory cues.
2006-10-20 22:14:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of Course Everyone dreams. It's the function of the brain and not the sight. Do you experience dreaming while you are either sleeping or with your eyes shut ?
2006-10-20 22:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by US 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-10-21 17:44:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but my 9 yr. old Blind Grand-daughter acts as if she might be dreaming sometimes. (she was born 3 mo's premature and born Blind), unfortunately. / good question!
2006-10-20 22:18:25 · answer #7 · answered by Brown Eyed Susan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dreams are our take on reality, blind people use touch, sound and smell, that is their reality, their dreams are proberly better, us fortunate one's with sight can see the horors of the world
2006-10-20 22:34:03 · answer #8 · answered by hicapaul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, they do dreaming is not the function of eye but your brains. u mostly dream whatever u have experienced during the day.
2006-10-20 22:48:57 · answer #9 · answered by Noor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they have to use their imaginations all the time...So of course those images are gonna head straight to the sub concious...which is where dreams emerge from...
2006-10-20 22:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋