2007-02-23 08:41:22 · 12 answers · asked by Smurf 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The visual image that they see in their dreams are based from the inputs from other senses (touch, sound, smell). And probably, from what he has been told by people who can see what these image looks like.
2007-02-23 08:54:41 · answer #1 · answered by zircon1973 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would ask someone who has lost his sight if they can still see in their dreams or is it all blank. I can understand someone blind from birth having difficulty dreaming about sight if they have never experienced it. A few people have mentioned feelings and other senses, this has nothing to do with sight itself but it does add to the visual experience.
When we dream do we not have our brain putting images on our retina? That can explain why sometimes when you wake up quick you can still see something that you were dreaming about for a split second. If you are totally blind is your brain still able to play its scenes on your retina? Or does it not work like that!
I guess it is a question for doctors as there wont be many blind people reading this I guess, even with the aid of translators.
Very interesting question too and it's one I myself have thought about in the past, but as I know no blind people I have never been able to ask.
Lets hope someone with a definitive answer comes along ;-)
Debs
2007-02-23 17:37:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, not in the way you are thinking.
If you have been blind from birth, a "visual image" is something for which you have no reference. However, recall that there are other sense that we tend to ignore when we get visual input. So while you might "see" a warm sunny day visually in your dreams, a person blind from birth might have a sense memory of the feeling of heat on their skin, the sounds of the wind and animals, and the associated smells. So their dream involves different senses, but is in no way "less" of a dream.
2007-02-23 16:51:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes they do but not like us there world is based on other principles full of imagination about the things and there shape unlike the peoples with sight they are more often like hear things and visualize the images, they are considered to .
everyone has dreams i have seen them dreaming smiling and even getting sad.
having no sight doesn't make them different from us we all have dreams so do they.
they can actually visualize 30% of image structure in there head
2007-02-24 15:29:14 · answer #4 · answered by THE Negative Character 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We do not actually see images, we only visualize them. That having been said, a person who has not seen a shape would find it hard to visualize. However, I am sure they will have some way of preceiving their thoughs.
2007-02-23 16:47:22 · answer #5 · answered by AarCee 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they don't "see" it with their eyes, or anything for that matter, but they feel and hear it, so their dreams are much more real than ours are. One blind man said that in one dream he had a guy chasing him with a gun and he heard the shots ring out and felt the bullets piercing his back.
Creepy, but cool.
2007-02-23 17:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would imagine that, however they perceive the natural world is roughly the same as how they perceive their dreams... maybe as sensations, smells..
interesting question though.
2007-02-23 16:49:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why dont you ask a blind man?
2007-02-23 16:50:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
wow what a good question, i suppose they'd see what they imagine which is probably not very similar to what we see though not always far off cos can be based on other senses!
2007-02-23 16:49:13 · answer #9 · answered by charl203 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wait i shall go phone stevie wonder and get right back to you !!
2007-02-23 16:50:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋