Thread: Do Blind People Have Visual Dreams?

If someone has been blind since birth, they will only have auditory dreams. If they became blind, what they might see in their dreams would be built around their memories.

If you went blind as a child, you might remember some things, colors, abstract shapes, and dream those. If you went blind as an adult you would probably continue to have visual dreams for some time (hell of a dreamsign that would be). Either way, given enough time though, dreams would probably become almost completely auditory even for the adult.

People who lose their sight very early (before age five) apparently experience no visual imagery in their dreams. Visual imagery is a variable for those who lose their sight between ages five and seven. People who lose their sight after age seven almost always have some level of visual imagery present in their dreams.

Those with Cogenital (since birth) blindness do not have visual dreams.

People who have seen but have since gone blind do have visual dreams.

No... I think the best way to describe it is asking you if you have a sense that you don't have in your dreams...

Do you see ultraviolet light in your dreams? No... because you've never experienced it...
Do you see new colors in your dreams? No, that's impossible because you've never seen a new color in real life. Dreams ultimately come from your experiences, and you've never seen a new color (because humans can't). Sometimes people claim to see new colors, but either their mind is tricking them or they don't understand the concept of a new color. If you can describe it using colors that we have, it's not a new color, basically. This also means if someone grew up and somehow never saw the color red (say they lived in a prison or something), than they could never see the color red in their dreams .

That would blow ass.

I can't imagine not being able to see or see in my dreams.

Originally Posted by Elis D.

That would blow ass.

I can't imagine not being able to see or see in my dreams.

I have come to the conclusion that blind people don't feel the same way about being blind as we do. For example, imagine if everyone else saw infrared and ultraviolet light... do you think it "sucks" that you can't? I mean, I know you will say yes, because being able to have "superpowers" of sorts is always cool. But do you feel the same way about not being able to see these as you feel about being blind? If you have never experienced something, you don't necessarily feel like it "sucks" that you haven't. I suppose though that is different if you became blind after seeing for a while. That would be a different story. But for someone who has never seen before, it doesn't really matter. If you are still following, imagine that everyone else has some strange sense that you don't have (realize I can't necessarily describe this sense except as a branch off of our current senses, such as "seeing" ultraviolet/infrared. imagine describing seeing, hearing, touching, ANY of our senses to someone who has never experienced them). So imagine there exists this new sense that you can't possibly comprehend. You don't really care about it, do you? I mean... you have been raised to live with yNice work. I take it this is why my profile is vaguely possibly screwed up at the moment? Changing member groups, privileges, whatever?
our current senses knowing nothing else about anything else. Do you understand where I'm going with this?

Originally Posted by wasup

No... I think the best way to describe it is asking you if you have a sense that you don't have in your dreams...

Do you see ultraviolet light in your dreams? No... because you've never experienced it...
Do you see new colors in your dreams? No, that's impossible because you've never seen a new color in real life. Dreams ultimately come from your experiences, and you've never seen a new color (because humans can't). Sometimes people claim to see new colors, but either their mind is tricking them or they don't understand the concept of a new color. If you can describe it using colors that we have, it's not a new color, basically. This also means if someone grew up and somehow never saw the color red (say they lived in a prison or something), than they could never see the color red in their dreams .

I can describe a new color using an existing color, ahem; "Its like red, but has a longer wavelength."