What type of dreams (images) can a person see who is blind at the age of 5?
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My guess is that this person would learn to experience life without vision at all, and thus would dream sounds, tactile sensations, etc. but would see very few visions in their dreams at all beyond those they would see during the course of a day (most blind people are not 100% sightless).
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My dreams as a child.  I was very terrified of dead as a child and each night I had a dream about death.  I was petrified of night and sleep.\n\nHere’s one of my dreams:\nI was in my night pajamas that I hated.  I was in the sky (I guess heaven or the afterlife) and the sky kept changing colors.  Weird shapes shifted and changed all around me (At the time I understood them as angels).  Then a huge face appeared, as like from a fish eyed lens, looking at me.  That’s when I realized that I had no eyes.  Instead I had deep eye sockets.  Then I wake up.\n\nIt scared me as a child.  Every night I would have these dreams.  From age 6 to age 12.
1094678
I don't know but there's some interesting stuff in a book called "Take Off Your Glasses and See" by Jacob Lieberman about how there are people who are "blind" who can "see", even to describe the trees on the road they are walking on, if you are interested in other aspects of blindness.
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Dreaming doesn't require your eyes. Dreams are made of subconcious brain activity while you're resting, and they're just basically illusions. There's no actual SEEING going on, so it doesn't require your eyes. They'll dream the same way as everyone else.\n\nHowever, if you were blind from birth, and therefore you don't KNOW what an image looks like, you'll probably dream strictly in emotions and sounds.
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If they have never seen anything- they can't dream the images either.  I had a friend that was blind since birth tell me that what she sees is the same thing you see out of the back of your head.  Meanig- you can't actually see anything- but you might have the perception that something is there.
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Yes they can.\nThey dream of sounds and feelings and smells they grew up with, but no one's for sure if they can see anything. Some experts just believe that all they see is nothing since they don't know what things look like.\n\nMy mom works with sleep research and she has told me that blind people during sleep have the same brain stimuli that regular people have when they are dreaming.
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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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My boyfriend who is blind in one eye says he does not gain the ability to see out of both eyes when he dreams. He thinks this is because he was born that way. He suggests that if a blind person was once sighted they will probably see in their dreams. However, if they were like him and born that way, they would not. He once explained it to me that seeing out of that one eye is as foreign to him as me seeing out of my finger.
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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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People blind from birth have no visual dreams, though they do have dreams, rich in other senses. Those who loose their sight after a certain point (around 3) dream visually.
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if a person has never seen anything before, they're perception of things is quite different than ours. even by touch, they still cannot form images like we do. our dreams consist of everything we've ever encountered, so our imagination cannot be limited.by not having that sense of image your brain relies on other stimuli to interpret their\nenviroment.
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You can't see what doesn't exist.  Only the blind faithful "see" anything and that is part of hysterical visions.  That or being drunk or drugged.
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They do not and cannot "see in their dreams."  People who have been blind a long time, and who get some kind of operation that permits vision, do not "see" either - because "seeing" requires a very great deal of learning by the brain to processes visual input into accurate spatial/motive relationships.\n\nSuddenly having the visual ability restored is upsetting to blind people.  Not only does it frighten them because they cannot interpret things correctly, but it disturbs their sense of self and their sense of how they relate and fit into the world, which has always been for them a question of sound and touch.
202097
Dreams are the same for adults and children.  They teach us things, give us insight, help us work through problems, bring fears to the surface.  They are very beneficial-although not always pleasant to have.
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I feel sure that someone who has lost their sight later in life dreams just like you and I.  But blind from birth not sure. What visual references would they have?  Good question?
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Yes. The blind man has extra ordinary powers in order to compensate him the blindness. This is a miracle of God as he is deprived by eyes but he has been given extra powers of touch and doing work with hands. YOU must have seen that blilndmen are also much educated and they learn and memorize lessons more perfectly than the person with eyesights. This is a miracle of God.
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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