What does a person whose been blind since birth dream?
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very detailed answer with links to look at:\n\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=99188\n\nanother link:  \n     "The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc.\n\n     Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it?\n\n     Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images. But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like)."\n\nhttp://vision.about.com/od/severevisionloss/f/blinddreams.htm
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The mind's eye sees differents than the eyes you see things with normally. Close your eyes and picture things in your mind. You still "see" in your mind, can't you? The blind person can likewise see in the mind's eye, providing that he wasn't born blind, and have had vision at some point in his life.\nI don't think that a person who has NEVER visualize anything in his life can view things a sighted person can, even in a dream.
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When I dream, I don't just see things, I also feel them.  I remember dreams that I've tasted food, felt pain, smelled flowers, and heard noises.  I would imagine that in a blind person's dreams, that is how they dream, the same way they experience the world.
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This is an awesome question.  If someone is born blind they do not have the images that sighted people have.  So what imagery could their minds form?\n\nI am certain that blind people dream.  But what does their mind's eye "see"?
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Tricky one, personally I'd say deaf because I just find some sights so amazing, so breath-taking, that I'd rather see them and not hear them if I had to make that choice.  You've always got your other senses, so to smell something might be almost as good as hearing it, as well as touching, etc.  It would be annoying though coz people could speak up on you, I guess that goes for either really.  Also, you wouldn't have much trouble sleeping if you could see but not hear, the other way round could be really frustrating.  \n\nUm, as for the second question, I think it depends which sense you lose.  If I lost my sight, I'd be devastated to no longer be able to see what I hold dear and it would grieve me to be unable to watch people grow, things change.  If I had been blind from birth I mightn't miss it so much.  With deafness though, at least if you had had some experience you'd know what things were supposed to sound like and could perhaps substitute certain sounds in your head.  \n\nBizarre, what a good question - very thought provoking (and a time waster, I'm supposed to be working!!!)\n\nBefore anyone says it, I meant no offence to anyone who is already deaf or blind.
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obviously not. Its like asking if deaf people dream sounds and whatnot..\n\nHow can u dream in color if you've never seen anything other than shades of grey? How can you dream in sound if you're deaf? How can you dream of a EKanee if you've never seen one before?
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Yes. My grandmother is blind from a disease known as maculuar degeneration.  She dreams in full color.  She doesn't know if the colors look like what everyone else sees, according to her.  But she dreams about an apple and it is what she thinks red should be.  She can "see" what an apple looks like by feeling its shape and texture.  She imagines the rest.
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Well of course they sleep, but they certainly do dream. In fact their dreams are more vivid and sensual then sighted people because blind people have very strong senses. Their hearing, tasting, and sense of smell are quite accurate.
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intersting question; i think a blind person will affect the way they see in their dream.  \n\nFor example, i always dream and i can control what i do.  But if i have a pair of blind eyes, as i said before i can control what i do, i am sure i will not be able to see in colour during a dream.
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The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." \nBut the answer is YES. A blind person dream as other normal human being does. During dream a person do all those things which he/she imagine. it is only the unconciousness stage of mind.\nThose who are born bilnd cant see images but can only sense like touch,hear,taste,the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc. But they cant even see colour as they cant differentiate between colours.\nDream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. \n\nBut Scientific studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images; which is still controversial as images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like).\n\nBut those are blind later after birth they have normal dreams as of other normal human beings.
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the brain stays functioning even after you fall alseep.  Your mind is still full of the things that bother you on a daily basis, so you dream about those things.  For example, if you have a test or oral presentation, alot of people dream about being naked in front of the class.
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I dream of people that have passed away all the time. I have even seen my grandma standing at the foot of my bed watching me sleep. She had a bright light surronding her. It freaked me out. I have no clue what it is called, but i just want you to know that you are not alone.
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It's somebody which you can conjur up in a dream to help you on your way. Maybe via meditation one could train themselves to imagine somebody that they trust appearing and offering advice - then maybe by reciting some phrase at the same time as when they appear one could learn to invoke the dream guide dude during real dreams
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Is that where you re color blind? I suggest going to a college that people study to be an eye doctor and ask if that is in their curriculum. Its cheap and they can fix you blindness. also you are helping a student achieve their dreams
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No, because they don't know colors, you dream what your mind knows. I have a friend who went blind and he dreams in color because he knew colors. He has a couple of friends who were born blind who said they dream in soft, sorta grayish movements, kind of like a dimly lit room that has movement, like things skirting around, moving and lots of voices. To me that sounds errie, and nightmarish but to them, they don't know any different because they've never seen. They see with their hands but when asleep, they don't use their hands. I guess they go by memory, (the picture they got when they ran their hands over something).
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two qualifications\n1. be completely blind\n2. have the ability to make up stuff as you go
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those born blind usually have irreversible causes such as anopthalmia\nsecondary causes are numerous and many can be reversible