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Do blind people dream?? (pg. 2)
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| Julie_Spyder |
i'm very sorry for what i said..
but it just came out ...
i like.. totaly spazed.. cuz.. its' just the way i am.. .
i'm sorry if did hurt anyone.. :(
it's just that.. i get enough of thoes questions.. that it gets a little anoying .. likei get ppl asking me those questions.. and .. after a point.. i just SPAz.. i'm truely realy sorry but it's just one of thoes things.. :clown: |
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| Gekhous |
i still dont get Julies reaction, but anyhow... we dream of actual images, really wondering WHAT they exactly see/imagine when dreaming... ima think some more bout this
**edit: not mad at u btw hun... just dont get it, but nothing to worry about :tide** |
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| Spad |
Sorry to ruin this thread, but I was so interested in the answer to this I had to go find out :)
People who are born blind certainly do dream. However, people who are born blind or become blind before the age of five do not "see" in their dreams, though their dreams are as rich in narrative and detail as those of sighted people.
People who lose their sight after the age of seven can still have very vivid visual imagery in their dreams 20 to 30 years after the loss of vision. Between the ages of five and seven there is a bit of a grey area.
Rapid eye movements, or REMs--a series of jerky movements of the sleeper's eyes--accompany dreaming sleep. The eyes move as if the sleeper is watching the scenes about which they are dreaming. However, people with congenital blindness, and those who lose their sight before the age of five, may lack REMs, or if they have them they are generally of low amplitude. Those who lose their sight after the age of seven continue to have REMs during dreaming.
As one might expect, congenitally blind dreamers report auditory imagery as being more vivid than sighted dreamers do. Interestingly, deaf people dream in sign language and report more vivid colours in their dreams than hearing individuals. Finally, blind people tend to dream more about familiar situations and less about novel ones than do sighted people.
http://www.newscientist.com/lastwor...ers/708body.jsp |
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| Julie_Spyder |
| quote: | Originally posted by Gekhous
i still dont get Julies reaction, but anyhow... we dream of actual images, really wondering WHAT they exactly see/imagine when dreaming... ima think some more bout this
**edit: not mad at u btw hun... just dont get it, but nothing to worry about :tide** |
i guess it the same way as i would ask.. why are you happy..
it's the type of perosnality that i have.. and it's bad.. but i have to live with it.. |
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| Gekhous |
thanx Spad, for explaining...
Julie, didnt quite get what ur trying to say?? |
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| !_PeTrUs_! |
| quote: | Originally posted by Gekhous
i still dont get Julies reaction, but anyhow... we dream of actual images, really wondering WHAT they exactly see/imagine when dreaming... ima think some more bout this
**edit: not mad at u btw hun... just dont get it, but nothing to worry about :tide** |
LOL, you mean that :D :D
But what about peeps that gone blind during there life. They dream stuff and imagine stuff as we do (I think)
But when you're blind from birth you probably imagine stuff how it would look. They have there onw world that probalbly isn't like ours |
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| Taub |
| thank you very much spad |
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| cheesenip |
| Yes, blind people dream. However instead of visuals in their dream, their dreams are emphasized more on sound, smell, touch, taste, etc... |
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| ali92 |
| Let me answer this: I have 5+ friends who are blind and they all dream just like the rest of us! There's no reason why not! They see images, etc. Just like all of us! |
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| tiesto14 |
| i never really thought about this question.....but after reading Spad's post i am glad i took a minute to look....so i learned my new thing of the day.....good info... |
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| NY1004 |
| Hmm well, I always assumed that dreaming was a way for your brain to process all the stimuli it had come into contact with during the day. So with that said, people who are born blind...well their brain really has no visual stimuli to process but lets not forget that there are other 4 other sense and if one is inoperable the others are heightened...so yes blind people dream, just not the way we do, I think. |
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