Do the people who are blind from birth have dreams when they sleep?. How can they visualise things that they h
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While there may be exceptions, in general the dreams of the congenitally blind contain no visual elements and consist predominantly of sound plus smell, touch and the sense of movement.\n\nPlotwise they tend to to be reality-based--e.g., a reprise of the events of the day--with less of the fantasy you find in the dreams of sighted people. There's also more conversation.\n\nPersons who become blind after birth often see in their dreams, although it depends on (a) how old they were when they became blind and (b) how long it's been since. If you're blinded before the age of six or seven you generally see little or nothing in your dreams.\n\nDreams of people who become blind when older are often indistinguishable from those of the sighted, but as time goes on many "see" less and less.\n\nTo some extent, I gather, the lack of visual elements in the dreams of the blind can be counteracted by force of imagination. Helen Keller, who became blind at the age of 19 months, claimed to have "visions of ineffable beauty." These ran to things like pearls.\n\nTo my mind this betrays a certain want of ambition. A man's reach should exceed his grasp, right? So I'd want to see what I could work up along the lines of Jacqueline Bisset. But at least we know there's hope.
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I have a reoccurring nightmare that I have dropped my glasses and I am in serious trouble and I can't see to help or protect myself. The funny thing is that I wear contacts 99% of the time. In one dream I made it back to my car and tried to drive away and ran over someone because I couldn't see them. I think it is an inferiority complex because my vision is something out of my control.
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I often sleep with my eyes wide open.  I've been told by people who've seen me sleep (supposedly it's creepy) and sometimes when I wake up I'm already looking at something (usually out the window).  Sometimes as I'm falling asleep I can tell my eyes are open but my vision just kind of dims and I go to sleep anyway.
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My boyfriend who is blind in one eye says he does not gain the ability to see out of both eyes when he dreams. He thinks this is because he was born that way. He suggests that if a blind person was once sighted they will probably see in their dreams. However, if they were like him and born that way, they would not. He once explained it to me that seeing out of that one eye is as foreign to him as me seeing out of my finger.
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It is normal to have dreams each night as Rapid Eye Movement sleep associated with dreams is a normal part of the sleep process. Fifty per cent of infants have dreams but the frequency declines as we get older. Some people recall their dreams more than others. If you are having rapid eye movement dreams and are woken up, you will recall dreams. Dreaming is still a relatively understood process.
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light is needed for viewing objects, but not for virtual ones. see our dreams are a interaction of waves produced in the brain. when there is interaction in the mind there is no need of light in that.
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There has in fact been a good deal of research in this field. The most common scientific explanation is the dreams represent an attempt by the brain to classify and interpret information collected during waking hours. This explains much of the representational aspect of dreams as well as their frequent transcendental relationship to daily events. It also explains why analyses can occasionally help gain insight to resolution of problems as sometimes waking examination of the mind's attempts to resolve these issues can be helpful in this regard. It might also be useful to keep in mind that we dream several times every night, with the dreams themselves becoming more abstract and representational as the night progresses, and we remember only dreams which are in progress when we awaken. I hope this is helpful.
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If they have never seen anything- they can't dream the images either.  I had a friend that was blind since birth tell me that what she sees is the same thing you see out of the back of your head.  Meanig- you can't actually see anything- but you might have the perception that something is there.
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Blind people will not be able to dream the way people with sight do. But, I bet they "see" or visualize the sounds, touch, and smells that they have experienced. This is a very interesting question. Any blind people out there, please respond to the question so all of us can know if you see in your dreams.
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It depends some dreams just seem to be thoughts in ones subconscious, but then other dreams are able to give you a glimpse of the future. There is of course ways to enter a different dimension or a "timeless" state called "astral travelling", but this is not like any dream, it is a process of separating the "astral body" (or soul) from the physical body. In most cases this happens to people that have near death experiences and people that are in comas. It does sometimes happen to people while sleeping (some times you don't remember it happening).\n\n "Astral projection" is the process of meditation that causes you to experience this phenomena at own will. Here is a link with some information on this:\n\nhttp://www.astralweb.com/phps/topics_whatis.php
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Studies of the visual cortex during dreaming indicate that it is active in nearly exactly the same way as when we see something awake.  So, our dreams are "seen" in the same way we see everything else-smooth and continuous.  The reason it may seem "jerky" is twofold.  1) in a dream we can often jump from one dream directly into another and 2) we dont remember our dreams well-they arent stored smoothly like our waking lives are, and in fact some people cannot remember their dreams at all, so we probably only remember still images of the most exciting or traumatic thing in the dream.
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Everyone dreams... even dogs dream\n\nNot everyone has the capability to recall their dreams but most that don't can learn to recall them.  Here is a cool discussion / web site on the subject.
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I have never heard that at all.. in fact I have never heard a documented account of a blind person 'seing' or 'feeling' ghosts. It would more likely than not depend on what sort of blindness we were talking about here. If they had become blind during their life, then possibly it could be more to do with imagination. If they've been blind all their life, then that would be more interesting, as they would, in theory, never have seen any images of ghosts, so wouldn't know what one looked like, and would be unable to describe one, having never seen colours or shapes to describe what shapes or colours they were seeing. So I would say it would be more likely to sense or hear, not see.
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I think I dream in color. Researchers agree that most dreams are in color. Because dreams fades so quickly after we are awake, our memories of the dream are often recalled in gray tones. Studies show that those who are in tune with color in waking life tend to remember more color in dreams.\n\nTry the following exercise:\nDuring the day, notice at least once an hour the color of something, anything. My guess is that you will start recalling more color in your dreams.
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No-one is quite sure why we dream while sleeping.  \nIt seems to be the brain trying to make sense of things that have happened to us.  \nThis may be by weaving new material into the memory, in a way that will help us cope with future events.  \nGood luck with your English!
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Totally blind from birth have no idea what colors are.  As you they dream what they know.  People that loose their sight later will dream in color because they have seen color.  It is very difficult for the seeing to understand those that do not.
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My dreams as a child.  I was very terrified of dead as a child and each night I had a dream about death.  I was petrified of night and sleep.\n\nHere’s one of my dreams:\nI was in my night pajamas that I hated.  I was in the sky (I guess heaven or the afterlife) and the sky kept changing colors.  Weird shapes shifted and changed all around me (At the time I understood them as angels).  Then a huge face appeared, as like from a fish eyed lens, looking at me.  That’s when I realized that I had no eyes.  Instead I had deep eye sockets.  Then I wake up.\n\nIt scared me as a child.  Every night I would have these dreams.  From age 6 to age 12.