when a person is born blind.what do they see in their dreams?
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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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Blind people will not be able to dream the way people with sight do. But, I bet they "see" or visualize the sounds, touch, and smells that they have experienced. This is a very interesting question. Any blind people out there, please respond to the question so all of us can know if you see in your dreams.
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Dreams have all kinds of meanings to them.\n\nThere are several Yahoo groups about dreams you could join.\n\nInterpreting them can be difficult.  I've seen several dream interpretation books but the meanings of the symbols vary greatly. It's all very subjective.\n\nIf you have the kind that are coming true then you certainly have a gift.  Research it some and you will gain great knowledge from them!
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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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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.
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I had a dream last night…\nPeople who become blind after the age of 6 can see in their dreams, whereas people who are born blind cannot.\n\nAlthough, people who lose their sight at 7+ have very vivid visual imagery in their dreams 20 or 30 years down the track. The content of their dreams is more often about familiar situations, rather than new ones.\n\nDreaming in sound…\nPeople who are born blind however, still dream. Their dreams, containing as much content as sighted people, are experienced by auditory imagery.\n\nThis is due to their lack of Rapid Eye Movement (or REM), which occurs in sighted dreamers, as if they are watching something in their dream. People who become blind, however have REMs of the same intensity as of sighted people.\n\n\nReferences:\nWebb, Jeremy 1995 The Last Word [Internet] London Reed Business Information Limited Available from http://www.newscientist.com/ [Accessed 22 June 2001]\n\nOrey, H (1999) Medi Info Source [Internet] Irvine, California CME Incorporated Available from http://www.medinfosource.com/expert/exp3092799c.html [Accessed 22 June 2001]\n\n\nWriter: Timothy, Camberwell Grammar\nEditor: Caryn Hamburger
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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
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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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It depends some dreams just seem to be thoughts in ones subconscious, but then other dreams are able to give you a glimpse of the future. There is of course ways to enter a different dimension or a "timeless" state called "astral travelling", but this is not like any dream, it is a process of separating the "astral body" (or soul) from the physical body. In most cases this happens to people that have near death experiences and people that are in comas. It does sometimes happen to people while sleeping (some times you don't remember it happening).\n\n "Astral projection" is the process of meditation that causes you to experience this phenomena at own will. Here is a link with some information on this:\n\nhttp://www.astralweb.com/phps/topics_whatis.php
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obviously not. Its like asking if deaf people dream sounds and whatnot..\n\nHow can u dream in color if you've never seen anything other than shades of grey? How can you dream in sound if you're deaf? How can you dream of a EKanee if you've never seen one before?
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You take a test at the eye doctor.  Color blind people generally only lack the ability to see certain shades of a color like purple for example.  They wouldn't be able to differnciate between a sheet of blue and a sheet of purple paper.
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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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All people dream.  People that have never been able to see, "see" what they perceive they are seeing.  Blind people can read books, stories, news and other articles in Braille.
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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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Unfortunately, there's no easy answer there.  Simply put, a dream is where you become conscious of some activity in the brain that occurs seemingly randomly in the brain while the normal mechanisms that make your conscious reality--both actions and perceptions--are disabled (partially of completely).\n\nThe problem with finding a good scientific answer is that the dream is by definition subjective rather than objective. Science might try to localize where certain brain functions occur in the brain, and they might be able to show what parts of the brain correlate to conscious perception, but they can't -explain- consciousness per se.  Consciousness is subjective, and science is objective.
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Most of my dreams are of people I've never met and places I've never been.\nOne thought is that these people are real and they are interacting with one of my 12 (or 144 depending on who you read) soul extensions and I'm tapping into one of those soul extension's lives for the dream.\nAnother thought is that I am a writer and extremely creative so even my dreams are unique.\nMy therapist says every person in a dream is an aspect of the dreamer. So if there's a tall thin black sharp-shooting army woman in my dream, it's up to me to figure out what she represents in my personality.
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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).