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Originally Posted by Luana
Do you know if a person born blind dreams?
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I have a good friend who became blind by an accident...
in his early 20's
he says, yes, he does dream - and, see things in his dreams
Yes, blind people do have dreams.
However, those blind since birth
or very early childhood have no visual imagery in their dreams.
Instead, they experience a very high percentage of taste, smell, and touch sensations in their dreams.
The breakdown is as follows:
There are no visual images in the dreams
of those born without any ability to experience visual imagery in waking life.
Individuals who become blind before the age of five
seldom experience visual imagery in their dreams.
Those who become sightless between the ages of five and seven
may or may not retain some visual imagery.
Most people who lost their vision after age seven
continue to experience at least some visual imagery,
although its frequency and clarity often fade with time.
Source:
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library...itz_1999a.html
This is a rather scholarly paper and dry reading.
For more information, go to google.com, search on "blind people dream"
and you'll get links to many sites about the dreams of the blind.
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Yes however but they don't see in there dreams, they feel it, if a blind person were to dream that they got punched in there right arm in the dream they would feel that pain.
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www.DreamsCoaching.com
says on: Jan, 02 2007 at 12:40 AM
Dreams are adventures of our Dreaming Mind. Dreams can involve all of our senses or only one or any combination thereof, but dreams can be perceived with physical senses or psychic senses or both. In our dreams we can see, hear, smell, taste and feel, can't we? - but most dreams don't use all of our physical senses, even though we may talk out loud in our dreams or move our arms and legs as we go through the motions or emotions of a dream. Do you wonder what kind of dreams a person who has "Synaesthesia" has? A person who has Synaesthesia experiences life differently because they have a neurological condition in which two or more senses are connected or overlap. (For example sounds may be "seen" in colours and designs, or taste may be seen in shapes. Smells might also have a sound or color). We can dream with all of our senses or just one, but usually when we think of a dream, we think of it as a vision or images of our sleeping mind.
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also,
i say:
if a person's 3rd eye, opens during dreaming
they would see -- if they were blind / or NOT blind
also, if the doorway in the 3rd eye,
opens, and, a person moves into the 4th eye,
they would see -- if they were blind/or NOT blind
love/susan
the eXchanger