Concerning blind people and their dreams and other things.

Quest for Lucidity
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I just had a thought, and then wondered, what do blind people dream about. People blind from birth, that have never been able to see.

I wonder if blind people still see nothing in their dreams, and intead dream of touch and sounds and tastes and smells.

Or maybe they dream about what they’ve always imaged the world to look like.

Or do they dream they same type of dreams any seeing person dreams.

Perhaps they form images from touch that their brains remember, like the contour of their families faces.

Maybe because they’ve lost sight, their other senses in the dream world are strong, as in the physical world.

I heard once that the brain is so powerful that it holds all the informations that all your senses have ever brought in, whether you were conscious or sleep at the time. So, if one sense doesn’t take in any information, maybe a blind person has more capability for extra-cognitive phenomena.

Just a thoughts that I thought deserved it’s own topic, aside from in my Chilla topic.

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I think that is the case with people who were born blindly, on the other hand, children who get blind quite early in life, might not see anything in dreams when they start to get older… And eh… If they got blind when they were six years or older, they would still have visuals in their dreams for the rest of their lives.

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People born blind never develop the image processing parts of the brain.

What they do have as dreams are tactual hallucinations. Some of them learn not to remember dreams, because if we can get confused between dream & reality at times, imagine them.

So basically, questioning what they dream about is the same as questioning what’s their approach to reality—how the face the world.

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So basically, questioning what they dream about is the same as questioning what’s their approach to reality—how the face the world.
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Not exactly

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I agree with your “not exactly” in one particular case—when the said bling people became blind after developing vision skills and their brain can form images. In this case, I don’t know what happens because I never thought of asking this to one of them. But people born blind dream just as we—their sensations may vary (meaning one may have a more tactual dream, and the other a more sound-oriented), but they don’t claim to see things and it’s clinically impossible that they do.

6

Okay, I understand what you’re talking about.

But I wonder if you could explain the concept of color to a blind person so he/she might be able to create images…

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I tried it. Most of them understand if you say it’s like texture, that each thing has it’s colour and you can just sense it.

But never heard of any dreaming of colours.

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Think about what you’re saying for a minute. Try describing the colour red to yourself, and then imagine trying to explain the same thing to a person who has never seen before. It’s just not going to happen, plain and simple.

If I had to venture a guess I would say that blind people would experience the types of images that unborn children have, so basically just very simple forms and lines.

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If a person is born blind, he or she never has the capability to produce images of anything, but on the other hand, if someone is not born blind, but becomes blind in their lifetime, they can still produce imagery because their brain has been experienced to imagery before.

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From what people have said, I’m going to say, EEP! Tactile dreams would freak me out. LHebEB!!!