If you are born 100% blind or become 100% blind before the age of say 3, what are your dreams composed of?
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nutting..just darkness and voices..i guess
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I think sight would be the worst to lose too.  I couldn't stand to not be able to see what my children look like as they grow up, or see so many other beautiful things.  Sometimes I wish I couldn't smell (changing dirty diapers!) or even hear (dogs barking all night).  But those senses would be easier to do without I think.  This is a good question, makes you think.
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Tricky one, personally I'd say deaf because I just find some sights so amazing, so breath-taking, that I'd rather see them and not hear them if I had to make that choice.  You've always got your other senses, so to smell something might be almost as good as hearing it, as well as touching, etc.  It would be annoying though coz people could speak up on you, I guess that goes for either really.  Also, you wouldn't have much trouble sleeping if you could see but not hear, the other way round could be really frustrating.  \n\nUm, as for the second question, I think it depends which sense you lose.  If I lost my sight, I'd be devastated to no longer be able to see what I hold dear and it would grieve me to be unable to watch people grow, things change.  If I had been blind from birth I mightn't miss it so much.  With deafness though, at least if you had had some experience you'd know what things were supposed to sound like and could perhaps substitute certain sounds in your head.  \n\nBizarre, what a good question - very thought provoking (and a time waster, I'm supposed to be working!!!)\n\nBefore anyone says it, I meant no offence to anyone who is already deaf or blind.
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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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Black & white.\ncolourful dreams only very rarely.
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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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Yes they can.\nThey dream of sounds and feelings and smells they grew up with, but no one's for sure if they can see anything. Some experts just believe that all they see is nothing since they don't know what things look like.\n\nMy mom works with sleep research and she has told me that blind people during sleep have the same brain stimuli that regular people have when they are dreaming.
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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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i was 9 years old at that time... a student.\n\ni dreamed about somekind of pastlife... in my dream, i saw my 25 year old self but it was 1823 of june... i seem to be very rich for i have lots of maids/servants and i lived in a fine-looking manor... i had a husband there, i was surprised that it was my classmate! we have 2 kids and we were all happy but someone... just came in and ruined my life... that woman... (i cant see her hace much) she blinded my husband (literally) and she left... but still i loved my husband more... then i woke up...\n\ni have lots more of other dreams like that... all in the past...
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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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thats interesting ..i never thought about that before ...can a blind person dream of something that they have never seen ? i think maybe they would dream more of the things they experinced while not being able to see ...since the theory is , when u lose one sense another one gets stronger .(.touch , smell , and taste ...)
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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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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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No, because they don't know colors, you dream what your mind knows. I have a friend who went blind and he dreams in color because he knew colors. He has a couple of friends who were born blind who said they dream in soft, sorta grayish movements, kind of like a dimly lit room that has movement, like things skirting around, moving and lots of voices. To me that sounds errie, and nightmarish but to them, they don't know any different because they've never seen. They see with their hands but when asleep, they don't use their hands. I guess they go by memory, (the picture they got when they ran their hands over something).
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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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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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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.