For a person who was blind since birth, what kind of dreams do they have?
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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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I have a reoccurring nightmare that I have dropped my glasses and I am in serious trouble and I can't see to help or protect myself. The funny thing is that I wear contacts 99% of the time. In one dream I made it back to my car and tried to drive away and ran over someone because I couldn't see them. I think it is an inferiority complex because my vision is something out of my control.
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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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Not sure.I have had dreams like that AOLT when I was a child
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I am not blind and don't even know someone who is, but I should certainly think so - dreams are your brains way to deal what you experienced and are necessary for mental health. But probably blind person's dreams would be less visual than yours - maybe sounds are more dominant.
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Start with Running Eyes for the Blind: http://www.runningeyes.com/\n\nI would also get in touch with a local affiliate of the Road Runners Club of America: http://www.rrca.org/
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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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I think that's a very general question. Did you have a specific disability in mind? A quadriplegic might behave and display different characteristics than that of a blind person, for example. It might be a bit helpful to clarify. :-) Hope this helps.
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Basically, if you're a 'Lucid Dreamer', you can control what happens in your dream, and know when you're dreaming. Lucid Dreamers also see their dreams in color. \n\nas far as I know, there's no way to 'obtain' lucid dreams, you're just born with or without them. I suggest searching it up on Wikipedia for more information. I've provided the link below.
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A number of states allow legally blind persons to get drivers licenses. Depending on eye conditions, a person may not be able to focus close up, requiring braille for reading and writing, but be able to function fairly well for distance.
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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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they trip! lol. even stevey wonder can see that. lol. i dont know but when you find that answer tell me. iknow how you can find out, just simpely blind your self and try it. hey would it be diferent for somebody who is born blind then somebody who got blind later in life? now your thinking.
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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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DREAMS\n\nAll of us have experienced "dreams". Sometimes they are good other times they are bad (nightmares), while in still others they are just confusing. I have seen many dreams, and actually do not remember most of them. They seem very real, yet you just forget it really quickly. So exactly what are dreams?\n\nWe typically spend 2 hours a night dreaming and in 85 to 90% of REM awakenings a dream is reported (5). The REM stage has always been considered the most intriguing, not only because of its unique features in relation to the other stages, but because of its strong correlation to dreams. It has been experimented that most people who claim to see dreams are awakened from REM (2). REM sleep begins with the pons sending signals to the thalamus, which then goes on to the cerebral cortex. Signals from the pons that shut down neurons in the spinal chord is seen as the source of the limb muscle paralysis. REM's relation with the cerebral cortex is seen as the source of dreams. Some scientists say that dreams are the cortex's attempt to find meaning in the random signals it receives during REM sleep (1). \n\nAlthough it is not fully proven, it is possible to see why the pons sends signals to shut down the limb muscles. In recent years it has been discovered that the paralysis prevents us from harming ourselves by acting out our dreams. There are people with a REM sleep behavioral disorder who act out their dreams and risk hurting themselves and others (6). The opposite of this form of REM sleep behavioral disorder is kanashibari (sleep paralysis) when we our conscious but are unable to move our bodies (2).
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For one you dont need to be able to hear to think, and thats what you essentially do when your talking inside your head.  Secondly your thoughts while you dream are not connected to your sense of sight.  From what I have heard your brain is wired to allow people to see what they dream, the one thing different would be that what those people see in their dreams wouldnt be influenced by what they see in the outside world
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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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I'd learn Braille, because I love to read. I'd learn how to use a computer set up for blind people (all while I can still see, so I can memorize this stuff) I'd get any adaptations I'd need for my condo to help me adjust to my new condition so I can see what I'd be dealing with before I'm unable to do so. I'd prepare to keep my life as close to the level that it's at now as possible.\n\nI used to work with a blind man who was just amazing! He worked as a customer service rep. He had a computer that talked to him and read him everything on the screen. He'd be able to identify everyone in the office by their voice. While most people relied on the caller ID to tell them who they were talking to, he didn't have that luxery. He'd get up in the lunch room, walk to the vending machine, and know exactly what button to push to get his salted nut roll. He'd take the bus home with his seeing eye dog...I never quite grasped how he knew exactly where to go. He had an awesome web site that he was working on. ver colorful, too. I miss him!