CAn anyone answer this question for me, its baking my noodle.

darthmise

This has been something that i can't stop thinking about and has been wrecking my head for a while now, and i just wonder if anyone knows for definite or has any theories, i have one myself i might post later.

My question is this:

People who have been blind from birth, what do they see when they dream?

Rabies

i have also taught about that a few times.
its even hard thinking about it.

i guess maybe they dream in obscure shapes and stuff.

the mind needs to be active when we sleep that is why we dream.

maybe blind people dream with the same perception as when they are awake.

i dunno.

the only way to ask is to ask a blind person

JustHalf

They don't see when they dream (at least not those who have been blind from birth).

Harmo

Dam you man its melting my head now the only you could find out is to ask sum1 but that would b bad, this is a tricky 1

darthmise

Originally posted by JustHalf
They don't see when they dream (at least not those who have been blind from birth).

Do you know that for sure, do you know anyone blind from birth?

bombidol

how would they know, if you asked em what do you see when you dream they would just saw, Whats Seeing?,
"Whats it look like??" they dont know, their senses are aligned really differently, i doubt even if they did see in dreams they would know what it was,

zenith

http://www.rommes.org/blind/dreams.html

"Jastrow's early but major study of dreams of the blind (1900- Jastrow himself was blind) is well worth reading and includes other studies of the time. His research indicates that a majority of those who go blind before 5 to 7 years old will not have visual dreams. But though he attributes this to brain development, it is not clear from his study if a lack of verbal development of visual metaphors was considered. "

http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/section/Everything_Else/Hard_to_categorize/983040715.htm

Q: Do blind people dream? If they do, can they "see" in their dreams?

Anjali Sharma (age 14)
Leaside High
Toronto, Ontario, Canada


A: Anjali -

I considered answering your question myself, but decided that you might prefer an answer straight from the source. So I passed your question on to my friend, Laurie, who has been blind since she was fairly young. Here's what she had to say:

" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I've met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30. "

Thanks Laurie!

-Tamara

darthmise

Yeah i was kind of waiting for a post with a link in it. I was more hoping for a discussion on it.
My hunch was they dreamt in sound, i just wanted to see if other people thought differently.

Thanks anyway.

darthmise

Makes you wonder about Helen Keller though...

DapperGent

I think Helen Keller had both sight and hearing when she was younger and lost them during childhood.

Gordon

Some blind/semi blind people are constantly rubbing their eyes though. This is because they see stars and shapes and colours by pressing the eyes against the blood vessels etc. It's the same effect as when seeing people press their eyes.

I think they do this to have their own version of what sight is like... maybe

prophet88

A creative mind can see anything, Regardless of wether or not they hold the gift of sight:)

WhiteWashMan

can people with no hands be told to get the finger out?

ykt0di9url7bc3

how would they describe it? but in the basic terms of shape, and what about colors...

the best way is to get a former blind person describe it to you!

Gordon

Well it's like you trying to describe the colour blue really isn't it, or describe the smell of freshly baked apple pie on a warm day. No-one can really describe it, that's why poetry can be so beautiful.. the ever attempting at reaching a perfect comparison?

Nobody here use a braille keyboard?

Tellox

how do blind people actually know what seeing is? I dont see a way to describe it in some school or something... *shrugs*