How do people born blind dream?

Freefaller said:
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.
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Thats what i would have though.

If one is blind from birth, they wouldnt have images in their head of things that they have seen. So if you or I were to dream about something that happened that day, we would see pictures in our minds eye. Blind people would not be able to do this.
 
Interesting thought..

I guess we will never really know..

Much like how they think babies see everything upside down when born as the brain doesnt know to turn the image up the other way until orientation develops.
 
I guess they dream in the same way as the non-blind do but without the images, you can still "hear" in dreams & sort of feel things happening in a dream, textures of things etc.

So i imagine they get the same sense of warped reality as we do, just their version of it without pictures.
 
Beansprout said:
Just can't see it happening I'm afraid.
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Nor can they - boom boom!

(sorry - probably bad taste. if anyone's offended by that then i'll remove it. obviously it's not going to offend any blind people is it?)



went a bit jimmy-carr-ish there didn't I?
 
They dream like a sighted person except they can't see anything (just like in real life). I have several friends who have been blind from birth and this is what they've told me. I also know some people who became blind later on in life and sometimes they can see in their dreams and sometimes they can't. A person who has been blind in one eye since birth only dreams out of the one eye
 
Iamzod said:
I guess they dream in the same way as the non-blind do but without the images, you can still "hear" in dreams & sort of feel things happening in a dream, textures of things etc.

So i imagine they get the same sense of warped reality as we do, just their version of it without pictures.
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i have had dreams where i have been hit or fell and that wakes me up with a shock if a blind person had a dream like that because of their enhanced senses surely it would be a really shock.
 
I am colourblind. It's not really as amazing as most people think, it's essentially a blending of the different colours into the same thing. For example: where a normal person would see a selection of greens, browns and reds on a detailed painting it would just look less distinct to a colourblind person. A good way of "simulating" it is to look at the more advanced versions of the colour blind tests.

I am quite severely colour blind but even I can tell it's an obvious number 25 in the picture. Because there's only two colours and they're quite far apart (in terms of shade) it's easy to distinguish.

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This one is a lot harder though. Your eyes can see the difference but you can probably still understand that the colours are a lot more similar that the colours in the first picture. This is where it comes into play as I can't tell the difference between them enough to make out the number.

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anyone get it where you dream something, then happens a few days later, de ja vu. now i wonder if its possible for some blind people to see that, but are unaware of it. those kinda dreams for me dont mean anything until it happens in real life, so if they never actually "see it" they dont really notice. i dunno dreams are strange
 
In regards to how blind from birth people dream, I think they do still have vivid ones but different from what we experience. Random fact here, all dreams are in black and white apparently even if you think you can see in colour it's just you guessing or something. A dream is hardly crystal clear vision wise but you still get an awful amount of feeling and general "knowingness" without having to hear or see it. I expect this is how they dream but greatly amplified to make up for their lack of visual stimulus. Fascinating thinking about it :)
 
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