What would a person who's deaf and blind dream about?

Question

What i was trying to get at is what would they dream about if they were totally blind and deaf from birth?

Answer 1

Everyone dreams (blind and deaf people included) and in general, people's dream experience is similar to their waking experience. For those that were blind and deaf from birth, they do not have a lot of visual or auditory stimuli to draw on for their dreams, so they have dreams that are primarily tactile or even involve taste and smell. They've done extensive studies and have also found that REM sleep is reduced (but not nonexistant) in blind people, so they may actually dream less.

Answer 2

Remember that not all deaf and blind people are totally deaf and blind.

I have had blind friends who are able to see shapes and shadows and I have had deaf people who, with the aid of a hearing aid, are able to hear well enough to understand speech.

So to answer your question, they would dream about the same sort of things as you and I.

Answer 3

there has been some psychological research done by someone whose name i've forgotten who has revealed that deaf abd blind people have dreams which are as vivid as non-deaf and blind people's even though they do not see anything so maybe they feel whatever they dream about.

Answer 4

Dreams are based on our individual perceptions (real or imagined) .. so would be relevant and relative to that indivdual... most dreams are motivated by experience or by emotional hopes and fears, so the perception of the dream would be very much the same as that of a person who is neither blind nor deaf.

It's all down to individual frames of reference.

Answer 5

they would dream of things just like us..fantasy,nightmares,things that worry them,exciting etc...as for seeing and hearing dreams they would create images from their mind that they have made up from touch,and smell and communicate in the language they speak in,whether its sign language or deaf/blind sign language.
i am deaf and i communicate in my dreams using sign language,speach or lipreading..but i have had some dreams where i read captions/subtitles or even speach bubbles when people are talking..but they are very rare.

hope this answers your question

Answer 6

They dream the same as you and I do just because they can not see on hear us they still have dreams that they can see and hear I can not see and I talk to you I hear a little and here I set and type this. my dreams are the key to the out side world that I do not see as you do

Answer 7

Answer: Not being blind nor deaf, I can't answer your question personally. But my guess is that you'd have to ask a person who was so afflicted to obtain data with any voracity.

Sash.

Answer 8

smells, textures, tempuratures etc....

for the average person, sight is about 98% of what their senses bring in. for a blind person, their hearing is the major sense. for someone who is blind and deaf, its touch. naturally, that is what they will dream about.

Answer 9

No one can be sure, but the person themselves. Maybe they dream what they would consider an ideal world- after all, there is no worry of seeing and hearing reality to spoil it.

Answer 10

Walking into wall or stubbing their toes? If they were'nt born that way then they would dream the same as you and me because they could still visualize what they used to be able to hear and see.