quote:

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.

quote:

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!

___________________
MarathonMan's most wanted: Spooky - Gargantuan

quote:

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.

___________________
Indiana Clones Upcoming Sets
[ I May Upload Something Someday ]

quote:

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...

___________________

quote:

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

i did

___________________

insignificant cor member alliance

any blind TA's?

quote:

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.

___________________
Indiana Clones Upcoming Sets
[ I May Upload Something Someday ]

quote:

Originally posted by CONNERMAN2000 any blind TA's?

all of them

___________________

insignificant cor member alliance

quote:

Originally posted by josh4 dreams are overrated

agreed. for once.

___________________
Wave is to particle as zero is to one as bagpipes are to modem noises.

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.