Do Blind People Need Less Sleep?

Stellios · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:48

Heres something different for you. A question insired by Karl Pilkington.

The first sign of being tired and needing sleep is you feel your eyes getting heavy, now do blind people get this sensation too? or do they lack it? Surely if they lack it they can live off a lot less sleep as tiredness will effect them less?

Yas786 · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:50

Im pretty sure blind people still get tired ie tired eyes. Just because they cant see doesnt mean they still dont feel it...unless their eyes are taken out??

Ermmm i dunno really, above was just a wild guess but its an interesting question...

Luke · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:58

My wife is blind and gets tired/painful eyes if she gets overtired. Vision is not a requirement for having the above issue.

Helium_Junkie · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:09

I guess it would depend on whether the blind person kept their eyes open or still blinked (Which they would, I should imagine...), and perhaps on the form of the blindness (damage to the optic nerve or to the eyeball itself?).
Interesting thought.

iCraig · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:11

Spawn said:
Im pretty sure blind people still get tired ie tired eyes. Just because they cant see doesnt mean they still dont feel it...unless their eyes are taken out??

Why would they have their eyes taken out?

Unless they're diseased or something, I can't imagine it being of any point to anybody to surgically remove a blind person's eyes.

Yas786 · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:22

iCraig said:
Why would they have their eyes taken out?

Unless they're diseased or something, I can't imagine it being of any point to anybody to surgically remove a blind person's eyes.

I dont know *shrugs*...if i was blind id ask them to take my eyes out so i can keep them in a bottle of formaldehyde(sp)...although still wouldnt be able to see them

due to being blind

Masterdog · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:24

Spawn said:
I dont know *shrugs*...if i was blind id ask them to take my eyes out so i can keep them in a bottle of formaldehyde(sp)...although still wouldnt be able to see them due to being blind

Be annoying if they suddenly started working again, and you'd spend the rest of your life looking out of a glass bottle. Then again, be interesting to see yourself come into the room.
This thread has taken a strange direction.

Stellios · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:31

Masterdog said:
Be annoying if they suddenly started working again, and you'd spend the rest of your life looking out of a glass bottle.

Imagine if you accidentally dropped the bottle down a hill

Richdog · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:36

iCraig said:
Why would they have their eyes taken out?

Unless they're diseased or something, I can't imagine it being of any point to anybody to surgically remove a blind person's eyes.

I think his point was that unless theoretically they have no eyes physically in their sockets, then yes they would get tired eyes. Not that there was actually any reason for removing their eyes.

Jonnycoupe · 20 Aug 2007 at 17:40

Sleep has more to do with the body recovering and growing all the muscles in the body and the brain rather than just those in the eyes. The heavy eye feeling is just your body telling you that you require sleep.

Yas786 · 20 Aug 2007 at 17:41

Richdog said:
I think his point was that unless theoretically they have no eyes physically in their sockets, then yes they would get tired eyes. Not that there was actually any reason for removing their eyes.

Yayyy for Richdog \o/

...that was the point...theoretical that is or hypothetical if you like

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riddler · 20 Aug 2007 at 18:03

emailiscrap said:
My wife is blind and gets tired/painful eyes if she gets overtired. Vision is not a requirement for having the above issue.

Wow that must be awkard

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[TR]SweetSpotOz · 20 Aug 2007 at 18:14

Stellios said:
Heres something different for you. A question insired by Karl Pilkington.

The first sign of being tired and needing sleep is you feel your eyes getting heavy, now do blind people get this sensation too? or do they lack it? Surely if they lack it they can live off a lot less sleep as tiredness will effect them less?

Serious question?? Really?

When your thirsty you feel it in your mouth? Does your mouth need water?

Logsi · 20 Aug 2007 at 18:44

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*Moangroan* · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:05

I suppose by his inspired thinking people in a wheel chair don't get tired that much cos they have been sat down all day....how about people in a coma not as if they need the sleep eh ??

Luke · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:30

5bjoshua said:
If you want your sig to show wrap it in

Josh

Thanks, sorted!

Angilion · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:43

A blind person might need slightly less sleep as their brain (which takes a lot of a person's resources) is doing less work.

Although perhaps it isn't doing less work. Less on processing visual input, more on processing the input from other senses. Maybe the overall load remains the same.

Kreeeee · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:52

Angilion said:
A blind person might need slightly less sleep as their brain (which takes a lot of a person's resources) is doing less work.

Although perhaps it isn't doing less work. Less on processing visual input, more on processing the input from other senses. Maybe the overall load remains the same.

I believe it would be doing similar levels of processing as they just pay more attention to the other senses.