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Lemon wrote on 2010-12-23 16:14
But do they?
People who are born blind. Can they dream? When they sleep, can they see pretty pictures in their minds? Or is it only darkness with sounds?
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Moppy wrote on 2010-12-23 16:24
From what I've heard and what I just searched on Google, blind people can't dream visually. If someone becomes blind sometime in their life, they can dream visually but it is more rare than non-blind people.
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Bakuryu wrote on 2010-12-23 16:25
People that were born blind dream of course, dreaming is something your mind needs to survive, "day residues" as Freud called them, reduces stress, if you didn't dream stress would pile up and problems arise.
They dream with sounds and feelings, they see no objects.
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Zid wrote on 2010-12-23 16:58
I'm guessing if you're born blind, you probably won't have visual dreams.
It may seem like a fundamental loss, but that's only from our perspective. It's probably a different universe in their perceiving, both reality and dreams.
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PandaSong wrote on 2010-12-23 17:01
What the other people said. I asked my cousin that question when I was around 10 or so, he was born blind, and basically said he dreams without the visual aspect.
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Zack wrote on 2010-12-23 18:08
They could probably dream visually if they had described video TV on or someone described how something looked. They would then create it in their mind to make what they think it is.
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Ninjam wrote on 2010-12-23 18:16
Quote from Zackeh;259220:
They could probably dream visually if they had described video TV on or someone described how something looked. They would then create it in their mind to make what they think it is.
I dont think that would work so well. Lets say i describe a basketball, its round, orange, and has black stripes i say, and its bounced on the ground.
Without having ever seen something orange, round or black, tell me what you would see.
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Kueh wrote on 2010-12-23 18:45
Dreams aren't only made up of images.
Every sensation can be experienced while dreaming.
It's just the most prominent ones are the ones you remember.
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Cannibal wrote on 2010-12-23 20:21
Quote from Zackeh;259220:
They could probably dream visually if they had described video TV on or someone described how something looked. They would then create it in their mind to make what they think it is.
Yeah, like Ninjam said, people who have never seen anything can't make pictures in their minds at all. They don't have the visual aspect of things like we do, because they really don't know what it's like to see something.
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User495 wrote on 2010-12-24 18:11
Quote from Wrath;259330:
Yeah, like Ninjam said, people who have never seen anything can't make pictures in their minds at all. They don't have the visual aspect of things like we do, because they really don't know what it's like to see something.
This
Also it's probably going to be just like how they perceive the real world just in dreams