2007-02-22 06:32:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Everyone dreams (blind people included) and in general, people's dream experience is similar to their waking experience. For those that were blind from birth, they do not have a lot of visual stimuli to draw on for their dreams, so they have dreams that are primarily auditory, tactile or even involve taste and smell. People who lose their sight very early (before age five) apparently experience no visual imagery in their dreams. Visual imagery is a variable for those who lose their sight between ages five and seven. People who lose their sight after age seven almost always have some level of visual imagery present in their dreams. They've done extensive studies and have also found that REM sleep is disturbed (not absent) in blind people, so they may actually dream less.
2007-02-22 06:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by psychgrad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, everyone dreams. If you're asking whether they "see" in their dreams, it can still be yes. If they were born blind they don't see things in the typical sense. They can see things - but it is likely their mind coming up with visual representations of what they experience with their other senses - touch, hearing, smelling. More often their dreams will be non-visual experiences like the experience of moving, or the emotion of joy etc. If they had sight at birth and time to memorize visual experiences then their dreams can be just like people who have their sight.
2007-02-22 06:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by dave 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard or read (I can't remember where this came from) that people who are blind dream with the same senses they have. In other words, their dreams do not utilize vision. They dream in sounds and smells and tastes.
However, people who were not born blind still visualize things in their dreams.
2007-02-22 06:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they've been blind all their life then they couldn't dream visual stuff. But they could still dream sound and smells, tastes and touch.
But I think if some1 was born with vision and became blind they could dream all senses.
2007-02-22 06:38:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dreams aren't visual, they're neurological. They may not dream about some hot girl they saw in the coffee shop, but they dream nonetheless.
2007-02-22 06:40:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a search on this question, it has been asked many times.
2007-02-22 06:40:04 · answer #6 · answered by justweird_sodeal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Why not?
2007-02-22 06:36:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋