Do blind people see dreams?

Answer 1

People who are born blind do not see in their dreams. Dreams are very much like what you know from experience. People who are born blind experience their dreams much like they experience life around them. Having never been able to see, they wouldn't understand the visual information because they've never learned to identify things from their appearance.

People who have become blind later in life, however, learned the visual identification from their childhood, and see in their dreams.

Answer 2

I had a friend who was blinded in an accident and when she dreamed she "Saw!" Common sense would tell us that if a person was born blind and had never seen a tree doest know what a tree looks like so they would dream in sounds or fussy hazes if that is what they see in normal life.

Answer 3

The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc.
Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it?
Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images. But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like).
Most researchers believe that people who are blind from birth or who become blind in infancy do not see in their dreams. They do not retain visual imagery because it was never acquired in the first place.

However, those blinded in childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, or afterwards usually do see in their dreams. "They often retain visual imagery in their waking life and in their dreams," according to Drs Nancy Kerr of the Department of Psychology at Oglethorpe University and G. William Domhoff of the Department of Psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
They write in the December 2004 issue of Dreaming that "individuals blinded before the age of about five report no visual imagery in dreams as adults, whereas those blinded after about the age of seven are likely to retain visual imagery in dreaming".
This conclusion is based upon four sleep laboratory studies conducted between 1966 and 1999. According to the Royal National Institute of the Blind in London: "Dreams are experienced in the same way as life is lived. If someone loses their sight, they will dream of events during the days when sight was available in visual terms. If dreams are about recent events when sight was not used, sensations will be in terms of sound, smell, texture, and so on." A person dreams as they live.

Answer 4

Only if they were not born blind. If they became blind they still have mental pictures in there head. Therefore they can see dreams.

Answer 5

Yes those people see dreams, it is an imagination,feelings,they can feel it surely

Answer 6

Sorry but the previous answers are incorrect. Yes they do, sight is not required, only an imagination. What they see is not what you would, but there is a visual.

Answer 7

Try to imagine a color you have never seen before

Answer 8

i always wanted to know the answer for this question, thx for making my wish come true

Answer 9

HI
Only if they ever had sight before.
Lammy

Answer 10

if they had sight before then yes,,.,.,.