What do people that are blind since birth see in their dreams?
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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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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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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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When I dream, I don't just see things, I also feel them.  I remember dreams that I've tasted food, felt pain, smelled flowers, and heard noises.  I would imagine that in a blind person's dreams, that is how they dream, the same way they experience the world.
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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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blind people have audio dreams... they dream about hearing things much like in the dreams of normal people...
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I think I dream in color. Researchers agree that most dreams are in color. Because dreams fades so quickly after we are awake, our memories of the dream are often recalled in gray tones. Studies show that those who are in tune with color in waking life tend to remember more color in dreams.\n\nTry the following exercise:\nDuring the day, notice at least once an hour the color of something, anything. My guess is that you will start recalling more color in your dreams.
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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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This is an awesome question.  If someone is born blind they do not have the images that sighted people have.  So what imagery could their minds form?\n\nI am certain that blind people dream.  But what does their mind's eye "see"?
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Not just those born blind, but people who become blind before the age of 5 or 6 loose the visual component of their dreams.\n\nEverything else remains the same.  See the reference below:
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the part that make us dream is in the brain. it's got nothing to do with the mechanic of sight loss and audio lost...
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I think their dreams would be blank as well. How can you dream of something you have never seen? If once they saw and went blind then I would say yes they do. If they were born blind, then there is nothing for them to see even in sleep. I wouldn't think they would see colors shapes or anything due to the fact they don't know what they look like.
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I can think of objects in terms of touch, and often do.  And sometimes I dream in scripts, "hearing" the dream as if someone were narrating a movie or even reading from a book.\n\nDreams start out as emotional responses that are translated into the mind's personal symbology.  So if you dream of fear, that may manifest as seeing a gorge as if from a high bridge, or just feeling like someone with a knife has grabbed you.\n\nIf you pay attention to your dreams you may realize that you "see" things that you couldn't possibly see, like someone behind 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.
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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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First what are dreams? Second, why do we have them?\n\nPeople born blind do dream, but those dreams are based on what they have sensed before -- textures, sounds, smells and tastes. (I surmise in that order too).\n\nI'll answer the first question, but scientists are still figuring out the second one. Dreams coincide with your brain being active while you sleep. Neurons, the cells of the brain, sends and receives nerve impulses, almost like a cascade or a "random" screen-saver.  Why?  There might be a hint in the fact we go crazy and die if we don't sleep. And we sleep to dream. It may be like re-booting your computer now and then. It puts all the files back in their respective folders, resets all the registers, and organizes your information.\n\nOoops, its getting late, I need to reboot my computer.
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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).