Now, I’ve never had the chance to ask this to an actual blind person. But my question is, What does a person who has been blind since birth (in other words NEVER EVER seen anything in his/her life) dream about? I mean, I guess we describe things to them so they have something to go off of for dreams, but they couldn’t possibly be near the same as the dreams people with vision have… could they?
Not only that but they can’t dream in color can they? Or does the brain automatically know these types of things at birth? Like colors, I mean you don’t remember seeing a color for the first time in your life, you might remember learning the NAMES for the colors, but not the colors themselves. Anyone have an idea?
i’m soryy, but that is a STUPID question. they probably dream about their life, like, we do, but without the picture part. in other words, they dream about smell, taste, touch, and hearing. big deal.
I don’t think it’s such a stupid question. It allows me to explain that people who are legally defined as blind have varying degrees of blindness. Some can see shadowy shapes; others may have been sighted at birth but lost their sight along the way. Many blind people have accompanying hearing loss. And it’s certainly not true that the other senses automatically become stronger because of loss of sight.
So it would depend on many things … I would imagine a totally blind person would have very auditory dreams, but that would assume this person did not also have some kind of hearing loss.
If they’ve been blind since birth, then their dreams will have no visual component. I mean, someone who was born blind has no idea what "seeing"actually is. It would be like you having a dolphin’s sonar in a dream. Ain’t gonna happen.
Actually, Cecil is not necessarily correct about this one. People that is born blind or became blind before the age of about 3 dream with the senses they got, smell, touch etc. People that became blind after the age of 3 still are still able to dream in pictures. Not at the age of 6 as Cecil said. Sorry no cite, it was a quite extensive study released a few months ago and it’s not available on the net.
This is a common misperception. “Legally blind” is defined as having vision that can only be corrected to no better than 20/200. It also includes anyone with a visual field less than 20 degrees.
My sight is 20/500 but can be corrected to 20/20 so I am not legally blind in any shape, form, or fashion.
I didnt feel like starting another thread but I wonderedabout people who are not blind at birth
when your blind is like black or not even that is it nothing whatever that looks like?
Why are sighted people so curious about how the blind dream?
Did it never occur to them to wonder about how the blind remember?
I’m satisfied to know that whatever processes the blind use in remembering while awake, the same processes are involved in imagining, whether while awake or asleep.