Man, i havnt been on this site for ages it’s changed so much, i’ve decided to take up LDing again, anyway.
I’ve always wonder, do blind people see in dreams, especially those who are blind from birth, i think ones that went blind later in life.
Does anyone know the answer?
It is indeed an interesting question 
I do believe that this has been asked before.
Yes, I’ve wondered about that too…Especially for people blind from birth…
Since they’ve never seen colors I doubt that’s what they dream of…Interesting question…
It’s indeed been asked before, but when I tried to search I noticed most of the topics are in the archives now.
People who are not blind from their birth have vision in their dreams that is based on the time they could still see. For some people the vision will be stronger than for others, and it can also be that the sight is weakened because you don’t use it in waking life anymore. But as you know, vision is not the only sense you have in a dream. So if you’re blind from birth you will still dream but you don’t see anything.
I don’t think it’s impossible for people who are blind since birth to see in dreams, as long as the reason for their blindness, is not that the visual cortex is damaged. I bet blind people visualize the world around them. There was this guy on Ellen who was blind but could see with the use of some think that clicks, and he listens to the echo. Like a bat. The colors that humans can see are specific, we don’t see all the colors around us, only colors in a specific spectrum. They are part of the human “programming”.
If I’m not mistaken, there is a guy, who was blind from birth, and he’s a painter. He asks people to dedscribe the colours, and he thinks he understands what they look like. So visualization is possible.
Wasn’t that on Oprah? I saw it as well 
Amazing indeed.
I know a blind man, i should ask him that. I hope he doesn’t take it the wrong way. That would be neat, to be blind though (not that i’m asking), for a day.
I always thought blind people who are born blind or have been blind a majority of their lives didn’t use “sight” in a dream but created the same experience through their other senses… Or maybe they do see but they don’t really ‘know’ that they are or they can’t distinguish what it is (blind sight or something).
Never really thought about it, but it’s interesting.
Since we dream pretty much about things in our daily life, then we can ask what is different for a blind person? A deaf person would logically ask for the time in sign or body language. A blind in braille or vocally. Or naturally.
My thesis : when a blind dreams of a giant malicious monster with yellow slime pouring down its jaws, he might feel its breath, hear from the echo of his own steps how large it is, feeling the “tension” in the air (intuition) and the sum of it all is still: “giant malicious monster”, RUN!
It’s a little bit like in the night when it’s all dark and you can’t see, you learn to trust your so called intuition + smell and voices get so much more important. After a while it’s not like you’re missing something, and you could certainly dream in that way. “That man over there smelled like he was noone to trust”. Might sound judging yes, but no more than visual input is.
I hope that someone finds this forum and can give us an insight to these dreams! 
Yeah aqueous, that 's sort of what I was talking about. The other senses fill in the blanks. The actual sight might not be there, but the world model is. Like, if a blind person feels a symbol. like a circle, they know how it looks. At least the structure. Not the color though.
I wonder, their world model, is it in a way more accurate? They will not get fooled by perspective. How would they imagine a rotating object?
What makes everyone so sure that blind people Don’t see in dreams? What we see is all processed in our brains, not our eyes, therefore almost everyone has the capacity to see things in their dreams. surely? maybe they wont see exactly what we see, but I’ve heard that people who are blind from birth do see colours in their vision. I’m sure that blind peoples’ dreams have some visuals in them.
Since dreams are a way of the brain processing thoughts and information you’ve taken in from the day, I’d say they would just see colours and hear sounds. I don’t think it would be possible for the brain to produce images which had never been seen before, but you never know 
Nobody knows except for them. Why won’t you ask the next blind person you see?