if someone has been blind from birth do their dreams consist of sound only?
114748
wow good question\nbut i don't know what the answer could be :/
397295
Yes.  Whatever you don't deal with while your awake you deal with in your dreams.  They are mostly symbolic though rather than something easily decipherable.
851520
I have a brother who is blind. Due to optic nerve damage. From what we have been told. There is nothing medical that can be done. However nerves can, and have been known to rejuvenate on their own.
228409
They don't see, they remember things that the've touched. It's a different form of sensory compared to people who can see. Blind peple depend on touch, so when they dream, they dream things that they can feel and touch. =>
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Nobody knows for sure, but they are essential. After several days of dream deprivation a person will exhibit severe mental and emotional reactions. Much research has been done on the subject, much of it at the Stanford University Center for Human Sleep Research. You can find more info at their website.
31508
I believe so, just they dream with their hands. Let me explain... I have a deaf friend, and when non-deaf people think, they think with words, when a deaf person thinks, they think with sign language, not spoken words. It's probably the same with blind people, they probably dream with words (since they can talk) and with feel/touch (since they feel there way around).
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You can find out all about the kind of dreams blind people have here...\nhttp://mind.ucsc.edu/dreams/Articles/hurovitz_1999a.html
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maybe they also dream but not as what we experience. this is my theory about this, a person dreams of some things that maybe they experienced or things they imagined. as a blind, they don't know what the physical things look like but they can feel, they can hear and they can smell. their dreams are full of hearing, smelling, and feeling but no sight at all...
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Blind people will not be able to dream the way people with sight do. But, I bet they "see" or visualize the sounds, touch, and smells that they have experienced. This is a very interesting question. Any blind people out there, please respond to the question so all of us can know if you see in your dreams.
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Yeah.\n\nActually, I think he wasn't born blind. I read somewhere (I don't remember where) that there were some complications right after he came out of the womb and something wrong happened when the doctors tried to fix it. He was given too much oxygen, and that caused him to go blind.\n\nTry searching the net for his biography. I think he has one in Yahoo! Music.
542533
Is that where you re color blind? I suggest going to a college that people study to be an eye doctor and ask if that is in their curriculum. Its cheap and they can fix you blindness. also you are helping a student achieve their dreams
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Not just those born blind, but people who become blind before the age of 5 or 6 loose the visual component of their dreams.\n\nEverything else remains the same.  See the reference below:
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" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I've met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30. "
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Only if they can hear. There different degrees of deafness. Some can hear a little to not being able to hear at all. Some were born that way while other happen over time.\n\nThe same is true with dreams of a deaf person they do not dream voices the dream in sign.\n\nThey have a complex language that takes usually 8 years to master. The same area in the brain that is used for spoken language is also used in sign. \n\nHere are some links to help you better understand ASL American Sign Language.
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They'd dream in pitch black as they have never had any visual points of reference. They do not know what things look like so cannot dream about it subconciously. Their dreams would involve sounds, emotions, thoughts and their perception of the seeing world.
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Nothing.\nThey have no visual component to their dreams.  Their dreams are much like their waking sensory perception.\nSee the reference below:
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There is no question that newborn infants have REM sleep, according to Dr. Charles P. Pollak, director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital in New York, and the rapid eye movements can be observed as they sleep. The two eyes move together, mostly side to side, but sometimes up and down. \n\nIt is a well-based inference that babies are dreaming in REM sleep, he said. \n\nAs for the content of any dreams, Dr. Pollak said: "That is like asking whether your pet dog or cat is dreaming, because they can't communicate, and you can't ask. We presume that infants dream infantile things, but we don't really know what it is that they dream." \n\n"There is some evidence in adults that the direction of eye movement corresponds in a crude way to the content of the dream," Dr. Pollak continued. \n\n"If they are dreaming about walking in a field," he said, "the movement is most likely horizontal. If they dream of looking up at a building or climbing stairs, vertical eye movement is more likely to predominate. We can't go further than that."