If you are blind from birth, how do you dream? I mean you dont know what color is, you dont exactly have images you have seen in your head and you cant fabricate images because you dont know what anything looks like. So what do they dream?
2006-12-24 06:24:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Everyone dreams (blind people included) and in general, people's dream experience is similar to their waking experience. Since they were blind from birth, they do not have a lot of visual stimuli to draw on for their dreams, so they have dreams that are primarily auditory, tactile or even involve taste and smell. People who lose their sight very early (before age five) apparently experience no visual imagery in their dreams. Visual imagery is a variable for those who lose their sight between ages five and seven. People who lose their sight after age seven almost always have some level of visual imagery present in their dreams.
2006-12-24 08:30:36 · answer #1 · answered by psychgrad 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They should probably do a study or something, seeing as how this question keeps being asked.
I'm guessing since we feel as well as see our dreams, that the blind experience a similar series of emotions triggered by memories related to their other senses, scents, sounds, texture and weight, psychic vibes, what ever.
2006-12-24 14:33:06 · answer #2 · answered by Soundjata 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They dream the same as we do.
The dreams may "superficially look" different than, ours. But, they dream the same dreams.
They "see" with their hands. If they felt you...they have a pretty good idea of what you look like...except for the "colors" we know.
Same goes for a couch, or a dog.
2006-12-24 15:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by dearreal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question !
I hope you get fully truthful responses and that they are not offended by the question.
Most of us (sighted) are blind to the blind.
I'd like to know.
Please, if you are so noted, please respond the the question - Thank You !
2006-12-24 14:38:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh wow I never thought of it like that before. I'd like to know the answer of this question, too!
2006-12-24 14:28:07 · answer #5 · answered by Hiya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably of conversations and sensations they have had.
2006-12-24 14:33:11 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
maybe God provided them with like a brile in hearing thing lol idk
2006-12-24 14:35:37 · answer #7 · answered by lifereject 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋