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What Do Blind People Dream About?

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What do blind people dream about?
Being blind, I guess.
Depends. Blindness can be caused by failure of the eyes to collect visual sensory information, or of the brain to interpret images.
Not being blind (nearsighted, sure, but not blind), I wouldn't know. Most likely they just hear things that aren't really happening.
About how much it sucks to be blind maybe?
Like deafness, I figure blindness would be that you can't take in the images around you but you can still see in your head how like you can hear things in your head while deaf. They'd probably still have normal dreams like we do.
You dream about past experiences as you have seen them. If the person in question has been blind since birth, they'll only be able to hear. If they were blinded during childhood or beyond, even when they were infants, they'd be able to dream with sight (since at birth you intake more information than any time of your life).
I don't know because I'm not blind or have any blind friends.

simple as that
They dream with other senses, I guess. Here's an interview with Stevie Wonder.

Edit: I guess that if a person turned blind at an old age, they'll still dream about colours and such, but I don't think those who were born blind have any grasp of what that really is, and certainly can't describe that they've dreamt about it.
I read one time that, like someone else said previously in the thread, some blindness is a failure to interpret images (the eyes still work, it's just the brain not knowing what to do with the visual information)

And I believe also read that in such cases, some of these people have actually been reported to dream in pictures, because their subconscious still "sees", things during the day even though their consciousness doesn't while they are awake.

It's really pretty interesting. If anyone can find an article on it to confirm it for me, that'd be great.
To someone that just read the thread title the obvious answer would be they would dream of sight again. However, after reading a couple of the comments in the thread, I would say they would have dreams that are along the lines of what every normal human being would dream. To put it in this way everyone is almost the same, no matter of their status, disability etc. So based on this a blind person could dream of what we dream, they could dream of fame, fortune or whatever it is that they may so desire.

This is a guess, and I hope I worded this correctly.
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I always wondered about this. I read that if someone has been blind for all his or her life, they do not dream about seeing at all, because seeing is something they simply don't do. However, if the person has had sight in their life before, they will dream like people with sight do. Free counters!

a dream is more like a tought. you 'send' images into your view. if you are blind, your eyes are not working anymore, while dreams bypass your eyes. But if you have never seen, you can not dream about any view because you simply don't know anything about seeing something.



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If they were blind from birth then their dreams involve their other senses but not sight. If weren't blind from birth then they still should be able to see in their dreams.
No. Assuming that the person only has prenatal neurological blindness (eye failure from birth), they would still be able to dream in images. However, the images projected during memory-based dreams would be garbled in comparison with those of a sighted person, because the images would have no "direct" baisis.
Originally posted by The_CowDestroyer
No. Assuming that the person only has prenatal neurological blindness (eye failure from birth), they would still be able to dream in images. However, the images projected during memory-based dreams would be garbled in comparison with those of a sighted person, because the images would have no "direct" baisis.

I'd like to know what makes you so sure of such a thing. Since you were able to post here, I'm going to go ahead and assume you aren't blind, and if a blind person told you they dreamed in "images", how do they know what an image is?
They don't have to know what an image is in order to percieve one.
For those who don't seem to have been interested in the interview with Stevie Wonder, there were a few interesting points.

[...]

In 2006 my mother passed away on the 31st of May, and you know, for us guys our mother is our first love. You know, you grow up, first love of your life is your mother. And through having a wonderful mother, you learn how to really love a woman. So, she was wonderful. And I had said when she passed away: You know what? I'm done. It's finished.

And then I went to this vacation thing. I thought I was awake. My assistant said: Hey you've got a phone call, you've got a phone call! And I said: Hello? and this voice said: Hi baby. And I said: M-Ma? How am I hearing you? And you know, it's like, I'm diggin' it so real. I said Ma, where are you? She said: How do I sound? and I said: You sound wonderful. She said: Are you okay? I said: I'm okay and I said Ma, I wanna come where you are. and [then] I woke up.

[...]

There's one question people always ask: When you go to sleep, do you see in your dreams? No! Okay?

The other question: When Jonathan Ross puts his fingers up and says How many fingers do I have up? am I looking at them? Absolutely not!

And the final question: When you're making love, do you close your eyes?

[...]


Note that the quoted text is not exactly as it was spoken, but I tried.
// Highwind II
Originally posted by mariofan1000
Being blind, I guess.


*facepalm*

Well I actually asked the same question a couple months ago to a few people and I'll tell you the results. My English teacher told me that if they were not blind to begin with, they dreamed of the memories they had. I personally believe that blind people that are blind to begin with only imagine in black and white because they can't imagine color, but that's just my opinion.


SUPER EPIC RANT
An abyss of darkness. (shot)
Good fucking bye.
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