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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Do blind people dream?

If someone was born blind? do they dream???

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I assume you mean by the blind the ones who could never see. Then, someone who could never see might have never dreamt at all as, if they had even if only once the way normal people do, they might have woken up going crazy due to the strangeness of their experience, that would not have made any sense to them. It would have been like a normal person having an experience of another dimension. This therefore suggests that the blind either do not dream at all, or if they do they do it all the time, in their imagination, in a world of their own, just as strange to the seeing as is the world of the seeing to the blind.

    If you have read Helen Keller's The Three Days to See, then you know the way she expresses her wish of being granted three days to see. I see this as one person's way of dreaming. I believe our hope, wishes desires are part of our regular dreaming, that no one in the world is without. I think we all dream in our own special ways. Do the seeing see all that is there to see?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Well, it is hard to do, but yes. I dream. I am blind from birth. I use a second sight if you will to interact. I am a rare blind, Hemeralopic. I have almost no vision when exposed to light. I see using a sort of resolocation. As an object vibrates, it sends out what is called a resonation, which acts like a sort of metadata, and depending on resonation size, I get texture, shape, and colors. It has required eleven or so years of no sight at all, and then a really important discovery to do so. I have perfected the tactic. There go, I have had some visual dreams. I haven't been able to dream in some time, but it is possible.

  • 1 decade ago

    If someone was born blind they have auditory dreams because they have never seen an image. People who have gone blind can have visual dreams depending on how much they have seen

  • jo
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I once knew a blind girl, about 19, who was born with a minimum of sight, but lost in all in surgery to get more. She was in a small group of kids in home for problematic such, and for whom I gave some art lessons which she attended, and she told me she could still dream and see colors.

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  • Your dreams are formed in your subconscious mind, which, in turn is formed of every experience you have had. Therefore, if you've never experienced visual perception, you won't have visual dreams. The dreams of a blind person would be made of touch, smell, feel and sound perceptions and interactions.

  • Don't know,

    I'm "physically" not blind, and I don't dream. May I be blind in the figurative sense?

  • Raatz
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes. Every mammal, let alone human, dreams. It's essential for brain functioning.

  • 1 decade ago

    They dream about the people who are not blind,

    yet who can not see.

    "Know your inadequacies,

    but don't let them become your master." - Helen Keller ♥

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes.

  • 1 decade ago

    well, I wear my eye contact lenses at night while sleeping so that I can see my dreams clearly..

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