do blind people dreams?

Answer 1

If the people were born blind, they have no visual imagery; the dreams consist of impressions from the other senses -- touch, hearing, smell, and taste. If the people were sighted and then became blind, their dreams contain visual imagery -- but these visual dreams might cease to occur eventually

Answer 2

There are many things a blind person could dream of. Here’s a look at some things they might dream and what senses they use in those dreams. One example is, when a blind person sits in a chair they can feel its main shape using their sense of touch, and thereby imagine what it might look like. Also, since they obviously can’t see, they will always pay particular attention to what a person’s voice sounds like. Therefore they could dream they were sitting in a chair and having a conversation with friends, and know it was them by their voices. Or they might smell burning toast or feel a breeze in their dreams. They might even have a dream where something drops and they hear and feel the vibration and have a sensation of fear.

Answer 3

People who are blind do dream. The people who are born blind dream differently than those with whom blindness occured later in life. Those who are congenitally blind often have dreams that include more instances of sounds. Both groups experience dreams as imaginatively rich as those of sighted people.

Answer 4

Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight.

Answer 5

Are we talking semi-blind or completely blind?


People who are completely blind and do not remember sight (e.g. those who were born blind) dream, but the dreams are missing the sight element....I think. They can still hear, taste, smell, or sense touch in their dreams, though, as long as they at least have at least had any memorable experience of those senses. However, there are various degrees of blindness. For example, many 'blind' people can sense a certain degree of light, shape, or movement...just not very much. Semi-blind people can certainly bring those elements into their dreams, though.

Answer 6

The blind see by feel. Read by touch. Sense the movements around and about them by location and build a pattern in their mind of their travels from the around the house to around their community.

If there were not variables, e.g., like other people walking, riding bikes, driving in cars; or a toy left on the floor, a tree fell, or a fence collapsed into their known paths all causing new obstacles a blind person could see with the patterns they have constructed in their mind. With practice where they traveled they would appear to move through, around, and up and down stairs almost as easily as a sighted person.

Those images they create in their minds provide sets, e.g., like on a theater stage, which they may have dreams about, interactions of others they remember occurring on the mental theater stage, and even rearrangements that could evolve into adjustments they make to their own in house rooms.
To make it better for them and their sighted guests as well.

Even we could do that if we spent some time thinking about it, instead of taking our sight, hearing, and feeling for granted.

I took a one day course at the school library on campus where a group of us were blindfolded so we could not even see a speck of light in the daylight. Then led out on the campus grounds between the classrooms, library, and offices.
I learned some very good things about our bodies abilities that day.
Have you ever seen a tree with your hands?

It gave new meaning to my understanding of how blind sighted people are.

Answer 7

Yes they dream, but just not in pictures. People dream about things they experience, so blind people would probably dream about doing things and talking to people, but not being able to see them.

Answer 8

The best thing to do is to ask a blind. That, you'll get the correct answer, straight ang fresh.

Answer 9

y not? if you became blind this night, would you stop dreaming... and if you're talking about people who were blind from birth, do you think they have no such thing as imagination at all? thats why they touch your face and such... they can imagine things too ya' know.

Answer 10

Yes they do... buti guess they different stuff in their dreams... bcos they wudn't hv seen the real thngs