If blind people can't see.....how can they dream?

Question

Cause if you don't see enything how do ypu know what your dreaming

Answer 1

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

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).

Answer 3

yea basicly what lucy said like picturein stuff if u closed ur eyes then u can still picture stuff and things rite? so yeah blind ppl can dream

Answer 4

Everyone can dream. Even blind people. They`re kind of......oh, how do I say it...........? Um.............well, sort of seeing things "inside their heads", if you get me. It`s their only access to sight, which is why dreaming is really important.

Answer 5

though feelings and emotions