what way do blind people preseive dreams?
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With the senses they do have, I suppose.
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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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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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That's actually an interesting question.\n\nOneriology, the scientific study of dreams, has revealed much about these mysterious experiences full of imagery.\n\nOne theory of dreams (the activation synthesis theory) states that dreams are the brain's attempt to interpret random impulses from the brain region known as the pons (which produces REM sleep). "Memory, attention and the other features lacking in a dream state depend on the lack of norepinephrine and serotonin, producing a psychotic state, as well as a lack of orientation to time, place and person."\n\nIf we could accurately measure these random impulses and the brain's reaction to them, we might be able to construct a probablistic (or, though unlikely, a deterministic) model of dreaming. This may vary greatly among individuals, though. If we could do that, along with being able convert the imagery into a visual format (definitely not trivial), we might be able to record our dreams.
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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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The primary purpose of dreams (REM sleep) in humans appears to be memory consolidation.  Humans who "lose" the ability to enter REM sleep due to certain medications or brain injury show no serious impairment of cognitive ability.\n\nMany people (particularly those in the Freudian tradition) try to attach special meaning to dreams.  The use of "dream dictionaries" to uncover the unconscious hidden meaning of dreams is a questionable therapeutic practice with little scientific justification.\n\nSome charlatans even claim that your dream images can predict the future.  As we are all free-willed beings, the future is unknowable until it becomes the present.\n\nHope this helps.
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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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well, just think about it. we often dream because of things that we see or experience in our lives. A blind person would most likely dream about things they experience in their lives. But since they cannot see these things, they must imagine what they would look like. therefore, they probably dream about what they think things are like. They would dream about what they picture in their mind when they experience something. Although, im not an expert, but that's just my theory.
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Yes. My grandmother is blind from a disease known as maculuar degeneration.  She dreams in full color.  She doesn't know if the colors look like what everyone else sees, according to her.  But she dreams about an apple and it is what she thinks red should be.  She can "see" what an apple looks like by feeling its shape and texture.  She imagines the rest.
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This a question I answered once!\n\n1. Blind born people aren't able to visualize because the visual area is not developped\n2. People that blind during their life ... is possible if visual area is intact ... ask someone in this category ...
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While there may be exceptions, in general the dreams of the congenitally blind contain no visual elements and consist predominantly of sound plus smell, touch and the sense of movement.\n\nPlotwise they tend to to be reality-based--e.g., a reprise of the events of the day--with less of the fantasy you find in the dreams of sighted people. There's also more conversation.\n\nPersons who become blind after birth often see in their dreams, although it depends on (a) how old they were when they became blind and (b) how long it's been since. If you're blinded before the age of six or seven you generally see little or nothing in your dreams.\n\nDreams of people who become blind when older are often indistinguishable from those of the sighted, but as time goes on many "see" less and less.\n\nTo some extent, I gather, the lack of visual elements in the dreams of the blind can be counteracted by force of imagination. Helen Keller, who became blind at the age of 19 months, claimed to have "visions of ineffable beauty." These ran to things like pearls.\n\nTo my mind this betrays a certain want of ambition. A man's reach should exceed his grasp, right? So I'd want to see what I could work up along the lines of Jacqueline Bisset. But at least we know there's hope.
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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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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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Ditto.  My dreams are always vivid color with Smell-o-Vision, Texture-Vision, and even Sexual-o-Vision.  I am amazed at the clarity and realism.  I agree: The claim that most people dream in black-and-white must be a myth.
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As far as we know they do.  Their eyes perform rapid eye movement at times...which is what all of us do when we are dreaming.
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why not, do u dream with ur eyes open?\n\nPeople who are visually impaired from birth appear to lack visual imagery in their dreams. It's believed that the parts of their brains that register visual information remain dormant. \nAccording to this fascinating article by Diego Kaski in the International Medical Students' Journal, even people who lose their sight early in childhood retain visual imagery in their dreams well into adulthood. However, this imagery fades over time. \n\nNevertheless, blind people do dream and often describe their dreams in terms of places and surroundings. An article from the University of Santa Cruz notes that blind dreams feature a "very high percentage of gustatory, olfactory, and tactual sensory references," something very unusual for sighted dreamers to experience. \n\nFor some intriguing and descriptive quotes on the subject, read Richard Catlett Wilkerson's article "Dreams of the Blind."
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I asked a blind man once (born blind) what he dreamed and he told me that he always saw sparkling lights in his dream, he couldn't dream with anything because he doesn't know how it looks like...