How do people born blind dream?

Tommy B · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:40

Is that not a strange thought?

PardonTheWait · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:42

Narration?

Beansprout · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:43

Just can't see it happening I'm afraid.

loopstah · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:44

Yes that is a strange thought.

I would imagine they dream the same as everyone else as we don't use our eyes to dream with and they still have their own perceptions of the world to build dreams with.

Freefaller · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:44

Apparently they dream with the senses that work. i.e. sound, touch, smell etc... People who were blind later in life still dream with vision as the rest of us do.

.SJ · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:44

Kol · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:46

Beansprout said:
Just can't see it happening I'm afraid.

Boooooooooo. Rubbish.

That's two puns I've encountered today. Good work. On a light note, do you reckon those that become blind later in life are better at plugging a scart lead in behind the telly? I find that if I close my eyes whilst reaching round, I can do it immediately. Eyes open, it never happens.

Tommy B · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:46

I just can't see how someone born blind could possibly "see" anything. They wouldn't even know what colour is for starters...

Dazzy_G · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:48

Tommy B said:
I just can't see how someone born blind could possibly "see" anything. They wouldn't even know what colour is for starters...

who says the colours you see are the colours i see?

i suppose it would be like Alien Vision

Davey_Pitch · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:49

Tommy B said:
I just can't see how someone born blind could possibly "see" anything. They wouldn't even know what colour is for starters...

They may learn to associate colours to other feelings though. Hot could be red, blue could be cold, etc.

Tommy B · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:49

Dazzy_G said:
who says the colours you see are the colours i see?

i suppose it would be like Alien Vision

What you mean what I might see as yellow, you see as what I see as purple?

Interesting thought!

Kol · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:50

Dazzy_G said:
who says the colours you see are the colours i see?

i suppose it would be like Alien Vision

I've always questioned that. How can we be entirely certain that how I perceive colours is that same that someone else does? Sure, I was taught blue is blue and whenever I see what I perceive to be blue, I'd say it's blue. Similarly, someone percieves the colour differently but still 'sees' it as blue...

G|mp · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:50

We all dream differently anyway

I doubt anyone dreams the same as me

Tommy B · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:51

Another question. Is there a disease that makes you see in black and white?

Colour and B&W are handled by different parts of our eye - rods and cones, right? so surely if one is "disabled" then you'd see in B&W?

james.miller · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:54

you know people can be colour blind, right?

PardonTheWait · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:55

Gilly's colourblind, isn't he? Seems like the man to ask if so

Tommy B · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:55

james.miller said:
you know people can be colour blind, right?

Yeah but they still see in colour, they just "mix them up" as such.

Kol · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:56

Tommy B said:
Yeah but they still see in colour, they just "mix them up" as such.

Red = green etc.

PardonTheWait · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:56

Tommy B said:
Yeah but they still see in colour, they just "mix them up" as such.

afaik some people are fully totally colourblind..

Obviously we don't know if that means they see in grayscale, because they're hardly going to be able to explain to us what colours they can see.. because they can't!

james.miller · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:57

no strictly true. colour blindness can affect people in different ways. My boss has a very hard time seeing red's, a friend of mine at school was completely colour blind. b&W only for that guy, he could only guess colours by their intensity but a lot fo the time he got it wrong.