If they do, how and what do they dream?
2006-12-17 02:18:17 · 7 answers · asked by Matthew T 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
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 04:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ Xeina ♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They dream in exactly the same way as the sighted. Based upon their experience in the world, their subconscious constructs scenarios fashioned around the way they normally 'experience' the world. Dreams are not just visual experiences. Are your dreams on 'mute'? Do you not feel physical sensations relative to the content? The blind 'see' the world differently, but they still 'see' it through the other senses, so it stands to reason the dream construct would revolve around those senses.
2006-12-17 11:37:33 · answer #2 · answered by mbh2k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine it is like you using your imagination and dreaming in pictures in effect. However i have a question regarding this if anyone knows? Do people who have been blind since birth still dream in pictures or can they have an imagination because they wont know what colours or what things look like? Just something i have thought about!
2006-12-17 11:30:14 · answer #3 · answered by passport_to_heaven1210 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. As they do not see, they may not dream any events as we do.
2006-12-17 11:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by tmthyh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have auditory dreams, they hear sounds.
But if they weren't born blind, of course they can see.
2006-12-17 12:38:00 · answer #5 · answered by Alterna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read somewhere that they dream colors. Weird huh.
2006-12-17 10:26:38 · answer #6 · answered by Texas Pineknot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's a very good question, sorry but I don't have an answer
2006-12-17 10:25:34 · answer #7 · answered by Unknown Artist~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋