Do you suppose that the blind dream differently than the sighted?

I would imagine so. Those who had sight at one time might still have visual components, but those that never did probably dream much like they experience waking life.

Congenitally blind people dream without a visual component, just as they live their lives. They would not understand visual content anyway, and cannot possibly dream sightedness without having experienced it. My fiancee is congenitally blind, and she is asked this question rather often. She tries to be patient, because she finds it quite naive.

As already mentioned, visuals is essential to dream. So this inspires my corny question of the night: do the blind dream of sound?

@dpworkin
When there is little known about a subject, the ones with experience will be faced with many iterations of the same question.
This, I believe, is why we have mass media and Wikipedia.

According to this paper, they don’t.

I had this exact thought the other day. I couldn’t come up with an answer, lol helpful right?
Maybe they do dream and see objects, however these objects would almost be unimaginable if we were to see them.

Fetuses dream in utero, as documented by REM seen on ultrasound during the last few months of pregnancy. I’d love to have a window into their dreams, with such limited sensory experiences to draw on.

Apples and Oranges, I know, but my wife is deaf, and she does not have unfamiliar sound in her dreams.