can blind people see the dreams?

Answer 1

What you see in your world around you is kept in your memory. So you need to be able to see color, to dream about color, to see people, to dream about people. If someone is born blind, then they cannot possible dream about what, to them, doesnt exist such as colors and what they precieve with their eyes.

So they dream about what their other sences tell them. For instance, our strongest sence is our eyesight. So when we dream, we rely mostly on what we see in them to remember the dream. However blind people do not have this. Therefore if their strongest sence is touch, they dream about feeling, and experiences just like everyone else. Ok lets think of an example

Lets say you had a dream about falling. You see that you are falling off of a cliff but never reach the bottom. Suprising as it may seem, this is a very common dream. A blind person could in fact dream the same dream, however, instead of SEEING that he or she is falling, they feel it, or hear the wind.

Therefor blind people do infact dream however the dreams are "seen" differently.

Answer 2

I have read up on this one. If the person was not born blind but became blind at an early age then they'd dream in vague colours and such as a young child can only have taken in so much visually. If blind from birth then they would dream in sound.

What you see in dreams are a re-creation of what you see day to day. So you could say the dream is like a painting of the life we experience, how can you visualise something if you never saw it? Though I suppose if someone were death and dumb, would they dream in physical sensations or smells for instance? That would be an interesting question.

Answer 3

All that is seen in dream is an image, sometimes a distorted one, of what is seen in the waking state. The waking state of some one born blind is totally deprived of any visual impressions that could later reproduce themselves in the dream state.. But since all of us dream, it seems that dreaming is a necessary function of the human brain. So then, the dreams of some one born blind will be sensations of impressions he had in the waking state on senses other than that of sight

This is just reason.. But sometimes reason does not accord with fact, nor is fact obliged to accord with reason.I will ask a blind man the next time I come across one.

Answer 4

i would think so because it is created in the mind and has nothing to do with the eyes. people that are blind but once could see say they can remember what people looked like. so i would say yes but im not an expert. however i think their dreams would be more focused on sound, etc: which sense the mind is stimulated with most. for people who arent blind, its vision

Answer 5

A woman who had been born blind once gave a talk at my school. Someone asked her what her dreams were like. She said they involved really intense sounds and touch sensations, but nothing visual.

Answer 6

It depends, if they have seen before they went blind then yes. If they were always blind, they might see descriptions and vauge images, but I dont think they could actually see vivid dreams.

Answer 7

Mmm....I am not sure! In my opinion, they could see the dreams. Anyway, the dreams they see may not same with us. What I means is the image they see and what we see is difference although the dream is the same. For example, we know how a rabbit look like, but in their thinking, rabbit may be difference.

Answer 8

awesome question... usually I dream about things I've seen before, but my imagination sort of goes nuts sometimes too. It would be really interesting to see how they perceive things around them while off in lala land, since there wouldnt be much of a concrete basis for any of the things they might see. Maybe they dream in sound, touch, smell..?

Answer 9

I see, said the blind man.

Answer 10

i never really thought of that before... id imagin that they could. because they use their hands and ears to see. they say a blind person who finnely gets their vision see's the world better then any normal person