can blind people dream?

Answer 1

1.Answer from somebody who has been blind since she was fairly young:

" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I've met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30. "

2. Yes, blind people do have dreams. However, those blind since birth or very early childhood have no visual imagery in their dreams. Instead, they experience a very high percentage of taste, smell, and touch sensations in their dreams.

The breakdown is as follows:

There are no visual images in the dreams of those born without any ability to experience visual imagery in waking life.

Individuals who become blind before the age of five seldom experience visual imagery in their dreams.

Those who become sightless between the ages of five and seven may or may not retain some visual imagery.

Most people who lost their vision after age seven continue to experience at least some visual imagery, although its frequency and clarity often fade with time.

Source:
http://psych.ucsc.edu...
This is a rather scholarly paper and dry reading.

For more information, go to google.com, search on "blind people dream" and you'll get links to many sites about the dreams of the blind.

Answer 2

Well, it is hard to do, but yes. I dream. I am blind from birth. I use a second sight if you will to interact. I am a rare blind, Hemeralopic. I have almost no vision when exposed to light. I see using a sort of resolocation. As an object vibrates, it sends out what is called a resonation, which acts like a sort of metadata, and depending on resonation size, I get texture, shape, and colors. It has required eleven or so years of no sight at all, and then a really important discovery to do so. I have perfected the tactic. There go, I have had some visual dreams. I haven't been able to dream in some time, but it is possible.

Answer 3

yes, they do. I've read, somewhere that if a person was born blind or was very young when they lost their eyesight, they have dreams in which they don't SEE something happening, but feel and hear voices, just as if they were actually there.
However, people who were old enough when they lost their sight, can have dreams where they see stuff, cause they remember how they looked like, and therefore can see it again in a dream.
:-)

Answer 4

you'll have to ask all blind people that question until you find one that says yes.

Answer 5

yes, i know somebody and i asked them and she said yes. it is very sad. she said she has dreams of what places look like.

Answer 6

mmm...interesting question!!! =)


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