Do People Blind from Birth sleep and Dream?
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Well of course they sleep, but they certainly do dream. In fact their dreams are more vivid and sensual then sighted people because blind people have very strong senses. Their hearing, tasting, and sense of smell are quite accurate.
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).
164171
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.
460878
Yes, the brain never sleeps. There have been many studies of Rapid Eye Movement. It makes no differance what your physical handicaps are as long as your not on life support and listed as "Brain Dead".
573335
I've had both hallucinations.  That's why sleep is important.  Without the regulating effects of sleep, even psychotic episodes are possible.\n\nOnce, I saw my rabbit unlock his own habitat, hop to the kitchen where I swear I heard the refrigerator door open and close.\n\nLuckily, no beer was missing...to sleep perchance to dream.
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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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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."
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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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My best friend was born legally blind. When we were 15 we went to a crusade and she was healed. The first thing she ever saw in her entire life was a stadium of thousands of people praising and worshiping God! It was awesome. When she went to the doctor's and specialists in the following days, they could not believe what had happened, one specialist she had been seeing since she was born. Since this, she has been part of lots of research and studies trying to fond how she regained her vision, yet no medical answer has been found. And oh yeah, how is this for you, 10 years later she is still eligible to receive the Blind Pension from the Government because once deemed legally blind.....always blind. They refuse to cancel her pension. So she donates it to different ministries.
267407
Depends on the dream. If you are dreaming that you are falling, then color is not of great importance. And again it depends on if the person was born blind vs going blind at age 20 when this person knows what colors are.
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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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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I certainly seem to.  I have heard that people dream in black and white but remember the dreams in color, but that doesn't make sense to me.\n\nI had a dream just a few nights ago with very distinctive colors... a choppy brown ocean, a stormy blue sky, and a woman in a white dress wading in the water.
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Yep they do- Check this http://www.dreammoods.com/
546324
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 ...
585026
My one and two year old do the same thing...A lot of people sleep with their eyes open ...While freaky to look at...it is not harmful or mean that anything is amiss.
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Obviously we're talking about those who were born blind and have neer seen color.  No, I don't think this can be done.  A blind person would have no frame of reference, nothing to relate to.