What would a blind person think if they could suddenly see?
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Very interesting question. Yeah, they perhaps have no CONCEPT of how things looks like...say color. How would they know what green looks like if they have never seen green. Shapes and sizes perhaps they can feel with their hands, and imagine it. Or they can try to understand other things, through language. But, for the most part, when they actually SEE things, I bet it'd be a whole new world for them! They'd be astonished I guess :)
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It depends on what kind of blindness they have.  If they are born blind because of a problem with the areas of the brain that control sight, they will not have any sort of visual images in their dreams. Their brain cannot make the images if those areas are damaged.\n\nIf they are born blind because of a problem with thier eye or visual nerve, they may get "flashes" from the visual areas of the brain when random activity fires across them during sleep. But, they won't know what it is, and very little is remembered from most dreaming, anyway. They may even perceive, in their dream, that the "flash" is from a different sense that they DO have images and vocabulary for (sound, touch, taste, smell). They won't have any memories to pull on of real visual images. So even though they may "see" because of dream activity in that area of the brain, it isn't a "real" experience in thier dream.\n\nSomeone who was born with sight, and loses their vision later, WILL have dreams with visual images, because they have the memory to pull on, and images attached to language so that they can understand and remember.
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I've read a book on this and if I can find the copy I'll tell you the name of it.  No, a person who has been blind since birth do not actually see but they dream of their auditory senses, smell and touch.  They experience what life has given to them.  \n\nThere has been acutal sight incidences with blind people who where blind since birth in a near death experience.  They said that what they saw was a blinding light, something that they have never experienced in life.
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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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Well, it would be difficult, but the blind man would have to hire someone to be his eyes and ears. Perhaps even hire someone to answer all letters and messages. But if such a man could hire such people and he and they were good at the job, the country might be well off.
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NO!  He would have a hard time just surviving basic training if he is blind in one eye.  He would pose a danger to himself and others in a real combat situation, The military won't take him. College would be my suggestion...
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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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Not sure how to do that one i would ask the actual person or person's maybe they will inform you how,as they are the one's that are blind ya'know?\nthat is a good Q? though :)
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I had a dream last night…\nPeople who become blind after the age of 6 can see in their dreams, whereas people who are born blind cannot.\n\nAlthough, people who lose their sight at 7+ have very vivid visual imagery in their dreams 20 or 30 years down the track. The content of their dreams is more often about familiar situations, rather than new ones.\n\nDreaming in sound…\nPeople who are born blind however, still dream. Their dreams, containing as much content as sighted people, are experienced by auditory imagery.\n\nThis is due to their lack of Rapid Eye Movement (or REM), which occurs in sighted dreamers, as if they are watching something in their dream. People who become blind, however have REMs of the same intensity as of sighted people.\n\n\nReferences:\nWebb, Jeremy 1995 The Last Word [Internet] London Reed Business Information Limited Available from http://www.newscientist.com/ [Accessed 22 June 2001]\n\nOrey, H (1999) Medi Info Source [Internet] Irvine, California CME Incorporated Available from http://www.medinfosource.com/expert/exp3092799c.html [Accessed 22 June 2001]\n\n\nWriter: Timothy, Camberwell Grammar\nEditor: Caryn Hamburger
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u see darkness because light isn't present. Not whether is it possible to look at nothing.
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Assuming they are completely blind, it's like having no eyes at all, in which case they would "see" nothingness.  Blackness would indicate an ability for your eyes to pick up at least some form of light, and completely blind people can't pick up any forms of light at all.
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Tricky one, personally I'd say deaf because I just find some sights so amazing, so breath-taking, that I'd rather see them and not hear them if I had to make that choice.  You've always got your other senses, so to smell something might be almost as good as hearing it, as well as touching, etc.  It would be annoying though coz people could speak up on you, I guess that goes for either really.  Also, you wouldn't have much trouble sleeping if you could see but not hear, the other way round could be really frustrating.  \n\nUm, as for the second question, I think it depends which sense you lose.  If I lost my sight, I'd be devastated to no longer be able to see what I hold dear and it would grieve me to be unable to watch people grow, things change.  If I had been blind from birth I mightn't miss it so much.  With deafness though, at least if you had had some experience you'd know what things were supposed to sound like and could perhaps substitute certain sounds in your head.  \n\nBizarre, what a good question - very thought provoking (and a time waster, I'm supposed to be working!!!)\n\nBefore anyone says it, I meant no offence to anyone who is already deaf or blind.
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When I was a kid I used to wonder if I could find my way around the house without my eyesight so I would put on a blindfold and eventually I mastered the whole house.  Sometimes, to impress friends, I would wash dishes while blinfolded.  Later on, the skill came in handy because I would always get home late and I would have to sneak in the house to get in -- without turning on any lights.
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I think that blind people would have their own ideas of what things 'look like' based on the things that are explained to them.  but while you cant explain color necessarily to a blind person, other things you can, and sound helps too. some blind people have very blurred vision and are still able to make shapes out. i believe that based on what they imagine things to be, thats what they dream. maybe just mostly shapes. just as we dont know what (a) god looks like, we all imagine and dream up something we belive him/her/it to look like, even though there is societal influence on the image in question. i think its somewhat ignorant to think that blind people dream in black and sound...
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well now our glasses would look silly if we only had one eye. or we'd have only one lense then have to say "Has anyone seen my glass"
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Wow, that's a deep question, but with failing eyes of my own due to diabetes, I have thought about it and concluded that I would rather have my hearing than my eyesight.  Because after all, if God is willing, I will always remember what I have "seen" in this world, but without my hearing, I might not hear an intruder coming towards me, or following me, or the birds chirping, or a child crying, a river stream, or rainfall..... Yep, I can always remember what I have seen, but I want to "always be able to hear them"...........hope this helps, and good luck to you.
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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.