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can a blindman dream

Blind from birth...?

yes. im sure it would be different. colors and flashes and shit


but the yes is in no way scientific

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Originally posted by nchs09 yes. im sure it would be different. colors and flashes and shit but the yes is in no way scientific

way to kill the discussion marioloilioilioiolioillio..

It's also possible to be unable to dream.

One of my mother's patients, after experiencing minor head trauma during an MVA, lost the ability to dream at all.

I think that's the scariest thing ever.

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Originally posted by Yan It's also possible to be unable to dream. One of my mother's patients, after experiencing minor head trauma during an MVA, lost the ability to dream at all. I think that's the scariest thing ever.

i bet that person's really pissed at martin luther king jr. for like rubbing it in his face.

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

http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/sect...s/983040715.htm

Dear Yahoo!:
Can a person who is blind from birth "see images" in their dreams?
Dreamcatcher


Dear Dreamcatcher:
This question has inspired volumes of medical research dating back to the 19th century. People who are visually impaired from birth appear to lack visual imagery in their dreams. It's believed that the parts of their brains that register visual information remain dormant.
According to this fascinating article by Diego Kaski in the International Medical Students' Journal, even people who lose their sight early in childhood retain visual imagery in their dreams well into adulthood. However, this imagery fades over time.

Nevertheless, blind people do dream and often describe their dreams in terms of places and surroundings. An article from the University of Santa Cruz notes that blind dreams feature a "very high percentage of gustatory, olfactory, and tactual sensory references," something very unusual for sighted dreamers to experience.

For some intriguing and descriptive quotes on the subject, read Richard Catlett Wilkerson's article "Dreams of the Blind."

http://ask.yahoo.com/20040826.html

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Originally posted by jonze234 i bet that person's really pissed at martin luther king jr. for like rubbing it in his face.

OMGLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

thats an interesting question. who invented it?

i think you can't stop dreaming, she probably just doesn't remember the dreams.

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Originally posted by jonze234 i bet that person's really pissed at martin luther king jr. for like rubbing it in his face.

I think the answer to this question could be answered by a blind person.

you guys know that dreams are created by wild random neural activity during mainly REM sleep. When you are blind from birth your other senses take over for your lack of vision, so the random neural activity occurs in all those areas causing dreams in those areas.


thats just my guess :P


reminds me of this show where they took a girl, blindfolded here so it was completely dark and taught her brail. They took brain images along the way and after a week er so, I forget the period of time actually, but the result was that her occipital lobe (responsible for visual processing) was going crazy with activity when she was reading brale. so she was like visualizing the brale.


crazy shit goes on in da brain.

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Originally posted by DOOMBOT I think the answer to this question could be answered by a blind person.

Which is why I posted that

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Originally posted by Boomer187 crazy shit goes on in da brain.

Yup - people who have had the occipital lobe removed/damaged still respond subconciously to visual stimuli. They have no awareness of what they've seen, but visual phenomena (such as fear conditioning) still occur. Scans show that subcortical areas are acivated. This means that there are visual pathways buried deep in the brain (much deeper than the relatively recently evolved occipital lobe) that bypass the occipital lobe and communicate with other brain areas, despite no concious knowledge of the percepts. Everyone, including seemingly blind people do this. It's called blindsight and admittedly has nothing to do with dreams but I just think its pretty cool.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 you guys know that dreams are created by wild random neural activity during mainly REM sleep. When you are blind from birth your other senses take over for your lack of vision, so the random neural activity occurs in all those areas causing dreams in those areas. thats just my guess :P reminds me of this show where they took a girl, blindfolded here so it was completely dark and taught her brail. They took brain images along the way and after a week er so, I forget the period of time actually, but the result was that her occipital lobe (responsible for visual processing) was going crazy with activity when she was reading brale. so she was like visualizing the brale. crazy shit goes on in da brain.

thanks DOC.. but what about the intarweb for blind people!!??

that must suck...

I'd imagine blind people dream of being able to see!

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Originally posted by Zewad thanks DOC.. but what about the intarweb for blind people!!??

Not really, I know designers can even choose how (and what) computer voices will read the content.

Haven't tried it yet though.

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Originally posted by Lira Not really, I know designers can even choose how (and what) computer voices will read the content. Haven't tried it yet though.

this is c0r... i didnt want a real answer...

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Originally posted by Zewad this is c0r... i didnt want a real answer...

i did

any blind TA's?

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Originally posted by CONNERMAN2000 any blind TA's?

I think the way the forums are designed (with its extensive use of tables) would make it extremely annoying for a blind person to browse.

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Originally posted by CONNERMAN2000 any blind TA's?

all of them

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Originally posted by josh4 dreams are overrated

agreed. for once.

there was a blind TA, i had a discussion with him/her and i was asking about how they were able to post and read other posts.


for all i know i couldve been taken for a piss, but it seemed genuine enough for me


And yes blind people can dream... but only in black & white.

here's the thread with the blind TA i was just talking about

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=222854

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