2007-02-14 04:47:47 · 11 answers · asked by ♫Lauryn♫ 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Just wondering.
2007-02-14 04:58:19 · update #1
I am deaf. Reading these answers is kind of amusing. I lost my hearing 5 years ago after a lifetime as a hearing person. I can remember what it's like to wonder those things. But YES! Of COURSE they can h-e-a-r t-h-e-i-r thoughts! DUH! :) You hear SOUND with your ears. And unless your thoughts miracaculously have some type of PA system, there is nothing to hear in the first place.
But if a person is born deaf, they they grow up using a different language system than you or I. The thoughts they are thinking might not be expressed in the same sentence form most of us use. That is why when some deaf people speak, their words often seem out of order.
2007-02-14 05:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they have been deaf since birth and have never heard anything, their dreams are just like their world which exists of mostly touch.
If they ever did hear, then they can remember some of what they heard. Dreams are made of what we experience. @8-)
2007-02-14 13:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, like what is the definition of deaf? Geesh!
So I sez to my deaf client, "Come here please...we're due at the hearing...we'll be hearing their client's story today." Then the guy in the courtroom said, "Here! Here!"
2007-02-14 13:08:07 · answer #3 · answered by M J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People learn to think in 'words' because words represent real things (chair, the color blue) and concepts (love, time), but we begin thinking in terms of our perceptions, senses, feelings.
Hearing people think in sounds because it separates our inner experience from our outer experience, but 'hearing' the sounds is not necessary to think.
Read Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.
2007-02-14 13:07:52 · answer #4 · answered by dragonsong 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deaf people do not hear anything.
Additionally, unless a thought is expressed, no one can hear it.
2007-02-14 12:55:28 · answer #5 · answered by SANCHA 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you cover your ears to block out everyone can you still hear your own thoughts?
2007-02-14 12:54:48 · answer #6 · answered by Maggie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I bet they can read your face better than the rest of us. The other senses usually become sharper.
2007-02-14 14:22:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. I mean, they're still living people who has a mind to think with.
2007-02-14 14:07:31 · answer #8 · answered by Banana Hero [sic] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thinking has nothing to do with hearing, sound has, otherwise we would all not think when silent.
2007-02-14 13:08:46 · answer #9 · answered by kahahius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well they can think...
so i would imagine that they can "hear" their thoughts.
except its not exactly listening to your thoughts...
its just thinking....
does that make sense?
2007-02-14 12:54:22 · answer #10 · answered by mylove. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋