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Lira
Ancient BassAddict

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
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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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DOOMBOT
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Registered: Sep 2004
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I think the answer to this question could be answered by a blind person.
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Aug-25-2005 16:01
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