i want to know if u are blind what ur dreams are like or if they even dream
2007-03-09 11:51:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
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
2007-03-12 03:29:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure that they do. Dreaming is a part of REM sleep, which everyone needs. What they dream about could be anything--just as a sighted person's dreams vary.
Remember that not all blind people were born that way, so some may dream of people, places and things in the same way a sighted person does. For those who could never see, it could still be about people, places and things, the way they "see" them to be.
2007-03-09 19:59:26 · answer #2 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-03-11 19:26:20 · answer #3 · answered by psychgrad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that blind people do dream but not like a sighted person. They "see" with their hands, and they use their other senses; therefore, they have the capacity to "dream".
2007-03-09 20:20:50 · answer #4 · answered by buckskinbabydoll♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I studied this several months back as I had always wondered for myself. I assumed that the only time of visual entertainment would be when they go to sleep and see color in their dreams...
Unfortunately, that's not the case, if blind from birth, a blind person is unable to dream because the visual cortex of their brain has never received any information and never develops which allows you to visualize and see things, conscious or unconscious, so sadly enough, they don't see dreams. : (
2007-03-09 19:58:13 · answer #5 · answered by BizDev 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi Sam,
Yes, blind people do have dreams... However, those blind since birth or very early childhood, have no visual imagery in their dreams... Instead, they experience a very high percentage of taste, smell, and touch sensations in their dreams.....
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The breakdown is as follows :
There are no "visual images" in the dreams, of those born without any ability to experience visual imagery in waking life...
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Individuals who become blind before the age of five, seldom experience visual imagery in their dreams....
Those who become "sightless", between the ages of five and seven... may or may not retain some visual imagery ...
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Most people who lost "their vision", after age seven continue to experience at least some visual imagery, although its frequency and clarity often fade with time............
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They can also dream of different shapes and colors, because of the imagination section of their brain....
I hope this answers your question.....
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Thanks, for the question!;)
My regards!
Take care! .. Enjoy your weekend :)
2007-03-09 20:09:15 · answer #6 · answered by Kimberly 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Blind people do dream. They do not have the sense of sight in their dream, but they have hear, touch, smell and taste.
2007-03-09 21:33:49 · answer #7 · answered by cihfwt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone dreams; are you asking if they have "sight" sensation in their dreams? That would depend on if they had been born blind, or got blind later in their life. If they were born blind, they wouldn't have any frame of reference for any sight stimuli in their dreams, so naturally they wouldn't see.If they got blinded later in their life, by disease or accident, it is possible they might see in their dreams, since they do have a frame of reference for sight, and then it would depend if their eyes had been damaged or the "sight" center of their brain. If only their eyes, then they might see in their dreams.
2007-03-09 20:04:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Websters defines blindness as "having no brain". Therefore I conclude that not only can they not dream, but they cannot speak either.
2007-03-09 23:59:29 · answer #9 · answered by Dan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they can they dream about sounds they hear and they have their own fantsy world, just like a regular person usually does.
2007-03-09 20:00:41 · answer #10 · answered by Mikaela U 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋