Do blind people have dreams about physical things they have never seeing?

Question

Do blind people have dreams about physical things they have never seeing?
How can you picture something, which you don't have any visual images of?
Aren’t dreams recollections of images from your own experiences?

Answer 1

No, blind people have dreams about things just the way they live...with sound, feeling, taste, but no visual image...unless they became blind at some point in their life, then they would have a memory of visual things.

Answer 2

Normal human beings have perception through sense organs. When the most important of these (for input purposes), the eyes, is not available, the visual impressions are not available for recall &/or permutation and combination (in dreams)....
BUT, for a rare few, a conscious & deeper level of perception gets enhanced, with self-awareness as the basic tool. Also, this perception happens unconsciously due to situation, but such occurances are stray & erratic. It is the perception through these perception levels that allow dreams about physical things that have never been seen (since they are blind)......
The whole controversy is arising due to the fact that LOGICAL MIND cannot simply accept this possibility of such a deeper level of perception (beyond sense organs). But if a person can think of thoughts being physical, some clue can be thought of... For instance, a person focuses the mind at a point on another's back for some time, it causes a sensation, inducing the other to turn back and 'look' for the source of that sensation.... just ask teen age girls who might have often felt this when there is a cowardly stare/glare from their rear, and they feel the sensation on their back.
In eastern philosophies, lot of inquiry has been done since centuries about the 'physical' nature of thought, which led to these deeper levels of perceptions.

Answer 3

I have read (i do not personally know any high functioning people who are blind) that congenitally blind people think of the world from a basically linear point of view. They focus their attention on some one/thing then approach it. When they have interacted with it they leave it behind (even if it is not literally behind them).
It would follow that there dreams have a similar perspective.

However, since many of our senses have "hard-wired" brain functions prepared to be learned from birth (like language) a rudimentary understanding of 3D physics must exist in all babies blind or not.

I would, also, guess that in the same way normal intelligence deaf children can quickly pick up visual language if their parents teach it to them and store this knowledge in the hearing and language part of their brain that a blind child could be encouraged to feel and hear details of the physical world (but only if they were taught to) and store it in the visual portion of there brain. This knowledge would come out in their dreams and would be equivalent to seeing in ones dreams.

Answer 4

I guess someone who was blind and can now see would be the best person to answer it....I would think you would need a visual reference for visual dreams, but then the human mind is capable of so much complextity that maybe it is possible that a blind person can have a visual dream, just not like what I would have because they haven't seen what I have seen....

Answer 5

People who are blind do dream. The dreams of people who have been blind from a very early age (called “congenital blindness”) tend to be different from those who are blind now but had sight before. Those who are congenitally blind often have dreams that include more instances of sounds. Both groups experience dreams as imaginatively rich as those of sighted people.

Whether or not congenitally blind people dream in images has been studied, but the findings have been mixed – some studies conclude that congenitally blind people do not dream visual images, while other reports conclude that they do.

Three careful sleep laboratory studies (Amadeo & Gomez, 1966; Berger, Olley, & Oswald, 1962; Kerr, Foulkes, & Schmidt, 1982) and at least one rigorous study of home dream reports (Hurovitz, Dunn, Domhoff, & Fiss, 1999) have shown that congenitally blind dreamers and those who became blind in infancy do not have visual imagery in their dreams, whereas those blinded in adolescence or young adulthood often retain visual mental imagery in their waking life and in their dreams

Answer 6

Yes. They dream as they can sense the physical things.Unless they sense physical things, it would not be possible to live . Hence, they keep impression of all the things they can sense during waking state in subconcious mind.
Yes, dreams are mostly related to our sub conciouss mind. However, it is possible that we may sometimes, dream with the help of our super concious state, which is nothing but in other words it is our sixth sense

Answer 7

Even when a normal person dreams he may not be able to describe exactly what he dreamt. He may in most cases be able to given an idea by exaggerating. I therefore feel that blind people also may have imaginatory ideas about things in their brains. Am I correct?

Answer 8

It isn't necessary to see in order to dream. Of course not! Dream is a heart, a need, a hope for the future or a depression for the past. Dreams represent a life we can't live because it is too nice or too bad(nightmares)

Answer 9

Ya of course they create an illusion image of physical things and do dream of them

Answer 10

sure of direction they might.Blind human beings see with their palms and different senses like scent.you do not might desire to open your eyes to nicely known your close to a scrumptious bakery or eating place .Or that your at a rock stay overall performance,not a funeral provider and so on.Blind human beings "see" of their minds eye,with the aid of verbal descriptions and examining shapes &textures with touch not sight.Sleep cycles and REM sleep the place targets happen, has not something to do with sight,all of us sleep and dream an identical way. SW RNP