2006-12-17 00:15:10 · 8 answers · asked by Annika 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Not if they were born blind.
2006-12-17 00:16:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they wouldn't. Visual stimulus is necessary for the wiring of the brain centers that process and interpret vision. The way the brain works is to develop, early in life, a huge number of neural synapses (connection points between neurons that are used in cell-to-cell signalling). As you grow and learn, these synapses are pared away to make the brain function efficiently, and that's the central basis of long-term learning. However, if the brain or any part of it fails to get infromation from hard-wired inputs, then that part of the brain will atrophy (at best, fringe areas of a cortical region might be adopted by adjacent cortical regions for different processes). But the take-away message here is that the brain needs visual stimulus in order to devolp the cortical regions that process vision. In the use-it-or-lose-it sense, the brain will not waste energy building and maintaining processes that aren't used. The optical cortex would never know how to function as an optical cortex in a person born blind.
2006-12-17 08:23:44 · answer #2 · answered by zabist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most blind people report that they do dream, its just not the same way we do. If they are born with sight and lose it, those people can dream about sights, and often do. But those who are born blind often dream about sounds and inner feelings and thoughts.
2006-12-17 12:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ Xeina ♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they have been blind since birth, then they wouldn't, visually speaking. However, if they became blind after having experience sight some time in their life (after an accident or something unfortunate), then they would see in their dreams.
2006-12-17 09:27:28 · answer #4 · answered by Jinky Winky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think blind born people dont hv visual dreams as we often dream like!!! However,they might dream but according to their imaginary world!! For me,blind born people hv created an imaginary world where we are living,in their own way n thus they dream according to that world they have created!!
2006-12-17 13:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by golden_boy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Friend is blind we speak about our dreams..
Mind you she was blind from teenagehood.
2006-12-17 08:22:42 · answer #6 · answered by A Lady Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think so. blind people can only not see and they can think right? and speck right , right? well i think the do but it depends on what u think
2006-12-17 08:18:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most probably, since they have their sitxh sense.
2006-12-17 08:29:11 · answer #8 · answered by Red 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋