do blind people have dreams?
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of course! they still have a functioning brain..\nthere are two type of sleep. NREM (Non Rapid Eye Movement sleep) and REM (Rapid eye movement) sleep and it is when dreams mostly happens.
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No. Some people are color blind, meaning they see only black/white. Some people are blind, meaning they don't see anything at all. Some are synesthesic, seeing random colors/shapes for letters...etc.
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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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dreaming with your eyes open.
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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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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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very detailed answer with links to look at:\n\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=99188\n\nanother link:  \n     "The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc.\n\n     Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it?\n\n     Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images. But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like)."\n\nhttp://vision.about.com/od/severevisionloss/f/blinddreams.htm
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i agree that they do, because dreams come from the mind, not the eyes!!!
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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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Yes. The blind man has extra ordinary powers in order to compensate him the blindness. This is a miracle of God as he is deprived by eyes but he has been given extra powers of touch and doing work with hands. YOU must have seen that blilndmen are also much educated and they learn and memorize lessons more perfectly than the person with eyesights. This is a miracle of God.
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They do dream in images, but the images they describe are not the same as yours or mine.  When asked to describe what they dreamed about, visually impaired individuals in some studies described familiar objects in contexts that were completely skewed -- like a huge dog shape for a cloud, or sometimes described something unimaginable to you or I, but it is how they always imagined it to be.\n\nInterestingly, people who had sight but lost it, also come to lose their visual memories of typical objects when they begin to use their other senses to compensate.  Their dreams become altered, as well.\n\nIt's a very interesting topic, and lots of material to read if you are really interested.  "Planet of the Blind"  =  Very interesting book.
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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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The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." \nBut the answer is YES. A blind person dream as other normal human being does. During dream a person do all those things which he/she imagine. it is only the unconciousness stage of mind.\nThose who are born bilnd cant see images but can only sense like touch,hear,taste,the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc. But they cant even see colour as they cant differentiate between colours.\nDream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. \n\nBut Scientific studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images; which is still controversial as images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like).\n\nBut those are blind later after birth they have normal dreams as of other normal human beings.
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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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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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Everyone dreams... even dogs dream\n\nNot everyone has the capability to recall their dreams but most that don't can learn to recall them.  Here is a cool discussion / web site on the subject.
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Only if they can hear. There different degrees of deafness. Some can hear a little to not being able to hear at all. Some were born that way while other happen over time.\n\nThe same is true with dreams of a deaf person they do not dream voices the dream in sign.\n\nThey have a complex language that takes usually 8 years to master. The same area in the brain that is used for spoken language is also used in sign. \n\nHere are some links to help you better understand ASL American Sign Language.