How/what do blind people (blind from birth) dream? Is it just sounds?
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I think the imagine some images or create them by describing them from other people in there daily life.
there are somethings that get embeded into our genes, dreams also fall into that category, u dont need soemone to tell u what is a colour and what is an object, so their dreams are full of emtions and expressions
Interesting question, I 've never thought of that b4. Its not like any blind people will be able to answer coz they wont be able to see the screen to read the question.
Dreaming is an overwhelmingly visual experience for sighted people. About half of all dreams also have auditory sensations, but in two large-scale studies less than one percent had gustatory, olfactory, or tactual sensory references (Snyder, 1970; Zadra, Nielsen, & Donderi, 1998). Kerr (1993) suggests that the extremely visual nature of dreams may be why many people wonder if blind people even dream. This wonderment may explain why the presence or absence of visual imagery in the dreams of the blind has been of scientific interest since the early nineteenth century. A series of questionnaire and interview studies since that time have led to four empirical generalizations (Kirtley, 1975): http://members.tripod.com/~o45tu/blind.h.
Blindness and dreams
Posted by cgardner on 5/8/2004 9:10:27 AM. http://www.afb.org/message_board_replies.
My middle school students have been studying Louis Braille and one of them posed the question, "Do people who are blind from birth dream in pictures?" I didn't know the answer but told them I'd try to find out. Can anyone help?
Re:Blindness and dreams
Posted by afbinfo on 05/12/2004
People who are blind do dream. The dreams of people who have been blind from a very early age (called “congenital blindness”) tend to be different from those who are blind now but had sight before. 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.
Whether or not congenitally blind people dream in images has been studied, but the findings have been mixed – some studies conclude that congenitally blind people do not dream visual images, while other reports conclude that they do.
Helen Keller addressed the topic of dreams in her landmark work, http://www.afb.org/mylife/book.asp?ch=hk. The Story of my Life. Her dreams are discussed in http://www.afb.org/mylife/book.asp?ch=p3. III, Chap. V
genetically speaking they can dream about people by imagination of human body shape
THEY DREAM OF PLACES SUCH AS BLACK HOLES AND STUFF
I would imagine that if the brain has no experience of imagery then your brain is clever enough to make up it's own perception of what the outside world would be like! So in answer to the question is they probably dream images as well.
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