Do blind people since birth have dreams?
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first your question is very smart \n2ND i think to dream is something related to power of imagination so blinds can dream because they still have imagination but; what they see in there dreams may differ from the real world and what others can see ,this different happens to blinds in real life and in dreams ;the blind can touch apple and imagine a rounded shape for it even if this shape is not the 100% as the apple we see but he can see that rounded shape he imagined as an apple in his dreams.    \nbut for the color i didn't find an answer
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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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I once heard a story that human beings at one stage in their development did have a third eye,I don't know if there is any medical evidence of this or not,it will be interesting to read your replies
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Dreaming doesn't require your eyes. Dreams are made of subconcious brain activity while you're resting, and they're just basically illusions. There's no actual SEEING going on, so it doesn't require your eyes. They'll dream the same way as everyone else.\n\nHowever, if you were blind from birth, and therefore you don't KNOW what an image looks like, you'll probably dream strictly in emotions and sounds.
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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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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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The mind's eye sees differents than the eyes you see things with normally. Close your eyes and picture things in your mind. You still "see" in your mind, can't you? The blind person can likewise see in the mind's eye, providing that he wasn't born blind, and have had vision at some point in his life.\nI don't think that a person who has NEVER visualize anything in his life can view things a sighted person can, even in a dream.
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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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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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Hey Bro..... only in their dreams...( but they spout it as fact )\n\nI think they need a life....maybe they could 'evolve' one.
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As the mother of a blind child, the answer is definately blind. My 16 y.o. son was born blind. It was heartbreaking. But we have taught him he can do anything except drive and fly a plane. And that's the truth. To see the world would be fantastic. He so wishes he could. But, to be deaf, you cannot communicate except through sign language or by reading lips. Either way you have to be looking towards the person. One would never hear music. Hear the world, noises, and the people around us. Sometimes this is a blessing with the words being used today! But, it is so much better to hear that puppy growl and hold it, feel the softness than just see it run around. We have allowed our son to touch everything we can think of and explore it with his hands, hear it, feel the texture and the temperature, taste it if possible. No he cannot see a rainbow. But a deaf person can't hear one either. Our son can't draw well or sign his name very legibly. But, I'll bet you it is a heck of a lot better than 1/2 of the people on this earth. Many whom are illiterate and some who are not and are just too stupid or ignorant to write. \n\nOur son has felt and heard dinosaurs, birds, horses, dogs, lions, elephants, snakes and much more. How many people have got to touch a real dinosaur skeleton and explore it with their hands. Other objects have been bought as stuffed or in minatures and he allowed to feel it. We arranged for a New Mexico zoo to allow it. Our son started learning braille when he was about 4 y.o. He was proficient by age 9. This includes the 26 letters of the alphabet, all the punctuation symbols used in writing, all the Math symbols, and 180 contractions such as ing, th ie, ar, ph. He has had to learn 4-5 times as much as all other kids his age and memorize it all. He is gifted musically and plays the piano beautifully. He has learned to play by ear with lessons taught and practiced with by using a tape recorder. Can a deaf person do this? And now we have books on tape. No good for a deaf person. There is a State Library in Austin where he can order and receive books in braille-many other places in the country, also for free. Sure a deaf person can read normally. But can only discuss it with another deaf person unless he writes it all down.  No he can't play sports, but there is not a sports commentary on the radio he cannot keep up with. They are so detailed. He does weight lifting, running, and goalball-a sport specifically for visually impaired kids instead. It has gone pro and has been an international game for years. It may soon be included in the Olympics. It is not a sport for wimps. There are some real hard hitters. Yes, our son has many struggles and challenges ahead of him. But for now he is an  A-B student planning on attending UT. His parents and close friends will be there to assure that he succeeds and becomes a productive, working member of society knowing how to utilize the resources around him to do what he cannot. How many sighted people have such a supportive backing?
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This has been done. As pine stripe notes it depends on when they were blinded. People blinded after about 5 years of age have no problems. People blinded before that have difficulty re-adjusting.\n\nPeople blind from birth are really quite interesting when their site is restored. They never have any ability to judge perspective. They can recognise small cubes up close for example, but they see cubic buildings and truncated pyramids. That's because a building looks like it gets smaller at the top due to perspective. A person blind from birth can never learn to recognise that that is just an illusion. they literally see the building with a small top and large base. They also see railway tracts as converging lines and are fooled by similar tricks of perspective that sighted people automatically adjust for.\n\nWeird stuff.
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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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If they have never seen anything- they can't dream the images either.  I had a friend that was blind since birth tell me that what she sees is the same thing you see out of the back of your head.  Meanig- you can't actually see anything- but you might have the perception that something is there.
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Yes.  Whatever you don't deal with while your awake you deal with in your dreams.  They are mostly symbolic though rather than something easily decipherable.
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As strange as it may seem, people deaf from birth will dream in sign  language. If they don't know sign language, they will dream in whatever mode of communication they've learned. \n\nPeople blind from birth will dream in sound and touch. \n\nPeople who have gone blind or deaf but who could once see and hear will sometimes dream with their lost sense, and sometimes not. The longer they've been without the lost sense, the rarer the dream using it will be.
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Basically, if you're a 'Lucid Dreamer', you can control what happens in your dream, and know when you're dreaming. Lucid Dreamers also see their dreams in color. \n\nas far as I know, there's no way to 'obtain' lucid dreams, you're just born with or without them. I suggest searching it up on Wikipedia for more information. I've provided the link below.