what do blind people see when they dream?
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They can still see in their dreams, they see how they perceive the world.  Dreaming has nothing to do with sight, the visual aspects of dreaming are in our heads.
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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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Your question assumes that dreams have a meaning. Personally, I see them as random biproducts of our brain's biochemistry. It's true that most dreams can be interpreted to have some kind of meaning; with a little creativity, pretty much every story, song, or work of art can be given an infinite amount of meanings. The reason dreams are hard to understand is that they weren't really meant to have a message in the first place.
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intersting question; i think a blind person will affect the way they see in their dream.  \n\nFor example, i always dream and i can control what i do.  But if i have a pair of blind eyes, as i said before i can control what i do, i am sure i will not be able to see in colour during a dream.
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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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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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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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I used to ask that too, how do blind people dream and how do deaf people think?... someone told me that blind people dream with voices and deaf people think with images of the sign language, interesting isn't it?
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We can't tell the future, but the nature of dreaming suggests that we may be able to predict it. Dreams are essentially the consious brain reviewing memories, and you get taken along for the ride. Sometimes, the brain decides to recombine things, which make wierd dreams. We can't remember our dreams because we cannot sense them, so we have nothing to remember.
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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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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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dreaming with your eyes open.
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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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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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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.
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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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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