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What would deaf people's thoughts sound like?

someone who has never heard human language? would that "little voice in your head" be signing?

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  • 8 years ago
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    It very well might be signing... although I think it's more likely that their dreams make use their other senses, just as their waking world does. It's PERCEPTION that matters - and even those of us that have the normal range of hearing don't always dream in sound. What does it "sound" like when you know something? Does it have a sound? Probably not - but you definitely know what you know, whether dreaming or awake.

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    8 years ago

    Maybe they don't think the same way. It's possible that they sort of "see" gestures in their heads instead. I know that when I do something a lot in a short time, it almost feels like my brain is wired to think in terms of that activity. For example, I was a music student and had to practice rhythms a lot in college. If I did it enough in the space of an evening, my mind would start to try to organize rhythms of the sounds I heard and the things I saw almost. I also got really addicted to Sudoku once and experienced a similar phenomenon.

  • 8 years ago

    Yes. Signing

  • 8 years ago

    they hear the voice of Morgan Freeman narrating their every day lives

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    That's a very good question and i have wondered that before

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