2006-12-21 20:59:22 · 8 answers · asked by esskaykhan 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
they could dream
2006-12-21 21:07:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kendra 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello: Well, I like your question. First let me say as a (blind) person I am not offended by this question. Second, I have been blind since birth. The answer to your question is actually one that may surprise some of you. The person who answered your question about the wiring of the brain is correct. However, in what way do you express seeing? Since I have been blind all of my life, I do dream. I smell things, hear things, feel emotions if awakened from a bad dream, and yes I see. I see by feeling. It is intresting to hear some of the questions about blindness. I don't mind answering the questions. Just keep something in mind. As a group of people that have blindness as a disability we are all not the same. That would be like implying that all Italian people like Italian food. If you did a survey of blind people you would find that we all have different querks about us. We are all not the same as a sighted person or disabled person.
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2006-12-22 06:19:23 · answer #2 · answered by babypink1970 2 · 2⤊ 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.
2006-12-22 05:09:44 · answer #3 · answered by apurva 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no. born-people can not watch their dreams. they can not watch any thing there for they just listen and there are all around a darkness whole thing is black in their dream
2006-12-22 06:08:51 · answer #4 · answered by manya s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
they simply feel, their dreams are about feelings and how people made them feel during the course of the day or week or whatever. they cannot see anything, we dream about what we see or how we see things.
Blind peoples dreams are all about feelings, noises
2006-12-22 07:09:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd hate to tell you this, but no. They've never actually seen anything to dream about, have you ever went to see and didn't dream; this is what it's like for them.
2006-12-22 05:59:57 · answer #6 · answered by Dimples 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a good question. I'm curious to find the answer out myself. Check this out: http://vision.about.com/od/severevisionloss/f/blinddreams.htm
2006-12-22 05:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Jay S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think they dream
2006-12-22 05:08:24 · answer #8 · answered by Cristina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋