Can people born blind dream or hallucinate with vision? (ONLY ANSWER IF YOU ARE OR WERE BLIND)?

Question

PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER TO ANSWER IF YOU WERE NOT BORN BLIND, OR WERE BORN BLIND AND THEN GAINED SIGHT. (And please state if you were at the beginning of your answer...because I will categorically ignore you if you don't qualify.)

I understand that some people who are born blind can, through modern technology, gain the ability to see.

If they can gain the ability to see later in life, it would suggest that their brain was capable of receiving SOME kind of visual stimulus beforehand (indicating that the problem was in their eyes, not their brains' synapses).

So can any people who ARE BLIND NOW or WERE BLIND AND HAVE RECOVERED tell me if they experienced colors before they gained their sight in dreams or in LSD trips (and simply didn't recognize it)?

Answer 1

My friend is blind. I am typing this at the request of my friend. He was born blind and for his whole life has not seen anything. I asked him whether he has dreams, and he said he does but they are not visual dreams, they have audio but the video part is missing. One such dream he had simply involved a conversation between him and his mother about his blindness, where he got quite emotional, and woke up with a cold sweat.

Another strange thing is he can only see black, but doesn't know what he is seeing. This is hard to explain, as it's different to just having your eyes closed. Close your eyes, and try to use your finger to see. This sounds strange, but this is what it is like for my friend. You can only see darkness with your eyes, but with your finger you can't see anything at all.

Answer 2

Ahum, you have a bad 'vision' on this, you know. I'm a social worker who met blind people a couple of times and we asked similar questions like you just did, so I think I have the right to answer them.
Yes, people can dream. Those who were born blind don't know how to cope with them or interpret them, since they never knew the concepts that were behind them, they may dream of a brown table, but neither brown as a color or table as an object has meaning for them.
Those who became blind can of course tell what they dreamed about. And yes, they still dream.

The reason? Well subconsciousness is at another level as sight and vision is in the conscious world, so it's pretty logical that the brain cells responsible for images while dreaming are processed at a different location, level and intensity then those from conscious vision and interpretation.

As far as your last questions go, you seem to have a very wrong concept of what dreams are about. No one in their right mind would try to force these experiences out of blind people, neither by keep asking them to tell their dreams or to do something with anaestics or LSD or other drugs and medication.

Answer 3

People born blind can't see in dreams because the part of their brain that decodes images doesn't work. People who could see once but have become blind do see in dreams, just as people who have become paralyzed can walk and run in dreams. But people who have never seen can't imagine seeing. There have been a few cases where people who were blind since a very early age (early childhood) had had their sight restored in adulthood. They had a very hard time getting used to vision, they found it very frightening and disorienting to see things, because their brains weren't able to make sense of what they saw.

Answer 4

yes i was born blind, its only recently (in the last few weeks) that ive gained my sight back. I still have a long way to go, I cant read or write but im working at it one day at a time.

but when i was blind i took LSD all the time, and yes i actually did see, i didnt know it at the time, but i saw the pyramids of giza, and the great wall of china in my drug induced haze, what do you think that means?

Answer 5

That is such a good question that I unfortunately haven't got the answer to. I've often wondered that myself. What do they dream up or invision.

Answer 6

Its hard to be blind but blind can do anything like reading through the senses..............................

Answer 7

Yes it is possible.

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Answer 9

how would they be using yahoo answers if they were currently blind?

Answer 10

sorry im not blind but blind people can't read this