Do Blind People Dream?
From what I know people dream, and blind people are people to. So do they dream, or do they not see anything?
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This is an awesome question. Makes me wonder if deaf people hear in their dreams or what?
Ummmm i would think so b/c it happens in thier minds, they might even dream of not being blind
They dream, they just dream the way they experience things in real life. If they have been blind their entire lives, then they dream in sounds and feelings and everything else except for sight. If they lost their sight sometime in life, then sometimes they see things and sometimes they don’t.
Don’t worry ShortStuff, I still think it’s a great question, first time I’ve seen it.
No. It’s a known fact that only sighted people dream.
Um. Yes.
Not everyone who is blind has been blind since birth, not everyone who is deaf has never heard. I once met a man who toured with Jason Mraz, his name Raul Midón both he and his brother were blinded by the baby warmers when they were born. All he ever saw were flashes of light and he explained through telling a story that yes, he dreams. In flashes of color and waves of light. At least that’s all I could hear over the screaming fangirls freaking out over Jason Mraz.
Dreaming is a function of your brain, not your eyes. You feel warmth, touch, pain, wind, everything in your dreams. Why would being without one sense negate them all?
@RandomMrdan and @ShortStuff No! I really am sorry! Forgive me?
haha it’s alright toomuchcoffee911, but if I ever want to link someone to previous asked questions like that. I will at least offer a decent answer, and then say, also you might find some more interesting answers, here, and here.
I just think it’s correct internet etiquette. I could be completely wrong though, I haven’t read anything on interenet etiquette. But I do forgive you =)
@RandomMrdan Thanks! :-)
My decent answer : I suppose if you had been blind all your life, you’d dream with/about other senses. If you had lost your sight sometime in your life, you’d probably dream with the sight function.
@Mr_M a guy I knew that was deaf had an awesomely loud stereo back before loud car stereos were the norm. I always wondered about it, and someone else told me that while the deaf guy couldn’t HEAR the music, he could feel the vibrations.
Wow, this is interesting to know.
My impression, entirely without empirical basis, is that when dreaming our brains tend to throw forth signals that, to our conscious minds at least, appear to be random. Sections of the brain, those that normally interpret signals for the conscious mind to use, then try to make the most of those signals, like they would during the waking hours. A blind person’s brain will still send out those ‘random’ signals, and their brains will interpret them as they normally would; whether or not that interpretation will include sight depends on how developed their visual cortex is, and thus indirectly on how long and for what reason they have been blind.
@evelyns_pet_zebra that’s what deaf actress Marlee Matlin said of the music when she was on “Dancing with the Stars” last season. She would feel the vibrations.
My best friend Erik had a friend in high school who lost his sight when he was ten years old. One day they were sitting together, smoking weed, when Erik decided to ask his friend, “What’s it like being high when you’re blind?”.
His buddy replied, “Like being high is for you except I can’t see anything.”
This has stuck with me for nearly 20 years.
My friend Chris has been blind since birth and he definitely dreams.
OK, post attempt #3, because IE8 is misbehaving. Speaking as someone who’s blind, yes, blind people dream. I personally don’t dream visuals, but I’ve never experienced them, which may be why.
Hi, “Kenneth”. ;-)
See, I figure if I put my answers here, it’s like answering the same question MILLIONS! of times, so it’s less effort. XD
@evelyns_pet_zebra and @Mr_M
When I was about 12, I used to go to this skating rink, and would regularly see this deaf girl. She was a great skater and used to feel the vibration of the music through the floor, even through the “noise” of all the skates.
I’ve always wondered, if you’ve never seen anything not even differences in the intensity of light. How would you know if you never dreamed with visuals? Is that a stupid question? I mean, how would you really be able to say I saw swirls or red? Or foggy grays? I don’t think I’ve ever been close enough to someone who is blind to be all super nosy and pick their brains.
Ever since I was a kid, I wondered about it, then I read The Giver and it still won’t wander out of my mind.
Let’s all keep in mind….I’ve been up for about 25 hours now.
I ain’t right in the head atm.
@Asmonet Good question, which I’ll try and answer as best I can. I’m working under the assumption that I don’t get visuals when I dream because, well, nothing HAS a color or other visual attributes. Now, bear in mind that not having visual attributes doesn’t preclude things having shapes, dimensions, etc.—but data that can only be gathered visually (particularly color) is noteably missing. Sorry if this sounds too much like it was written by a computer programmer… it’s just… it was written by a computer programmer. =)
Yeah I get that things can have form, and shape and texture, but you couldn’t really recognize a color. I guess yeah, I was right. I think I was trying to ask about color specifically but also other physical traits. And I think you answered it well, thanks. :)
<—is still exhausted. lol :)
@asmonet “Dreaming is a function of your brain, not your eyes. You feel warmth, touch, pain, wind, everything in your dreams. Why would being without one sense negate them all?” I do believe you have said it all.
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