Thread: Can Blind people lucid dream?

Can you see normally in your dreams? Or are you blind in your dreams too?

I would assume that you can become Lucid in any of your dreams. You don't have to always rely on something in your dream to become Lucid. Sometimes I'll become Lucid just from being in my dream, or when the dream actually starts.

Also, may I ask, if you can only see shapes and colors, are you having someone type this and read this too you?

I have a screen reader on my computer called jaws for windows. I can see Normally in my dreams.

Yes, but its content is determined by alot of things.

have you been blind since you were a baby? I think if you could see at any point in your life you can visually lucid dream (once you have memeroies of course) But otherwise you can have lucid dreams based around touch smell and hearing etc etc.... I'm pretty certain thats it anyway

Originally Posted by Mkmaster2400

I have a screen reader on my computer called jaws for windows. I can see Normally in my dreams.

Then you can Lucid Dream! Go study up on techniques and stuff!

May I recommend DILD or DEILD since you seem to be new to this stuff.

Originally Posted by Lucid fanatic

Yes, but its content is determined by alot of things.

have you been blind since you were a baby? I think if you could see at any point in your life you can visually lucid dream (once you have memeroies of course) But otherwise you can have lucid dreams based around touch smell and hearing etc etc.... I'm pretty certain thats it anyway

I was born blind, and I can't see clocks and watches and stuff like that. So what Reallity checks can I use?

I would recommend the plugging your nose and trying to breath through it reality check. It has never failed for me in a dream. You could also try the pushing your finger through your palm reality check.

Thanks guys, I'll try deild first since it sounds easier, then i'l try dild.

I'm sure you can. For the RC, I would agree with tdsand with the nose plugging.

I don't see why not. Dreaming is natural for everybody, it's somewhat like a reflection of life. The only limiting factor is you won't be able to see any better than real life, unless you had seen like that in the past.

Originally Posted by oniman7

I don't see why not. Dreaming is natural for everybody, it's somewhat like a reflection of life. The only limiting factor is you won't be able to see any better than real life, unless you had seen like that in the past.

i agree with every word of that.

Originally Posted by Mkmaster2400

I was born blind, and I can't see clocks and watches and stuff like that. So what Reallity checks can I use?

Along with the nose one, I'm having trouble of thinking up any. One step up you've got though if your sight is normal in dreams is that you've got an incredibly powerful dream sign right there. Use this dreamsign and the memory reality check, which is really the most important one there is. Every time you think of sight or vision or notice that you're seeing something, ask yourself where you are, what you're looking at, if it makes sense that it's there, what the quality of your vision is and if the explanation is that you're dreaming. You could also, as a reality check, ask questions of any dream characters around you. Since they could literally say anything this has some limitations just like any reality check.

Really though, you don't need reality checks at all so don't feel like you've hit a bump in the road. If you just make sure to work on your awareness overall, you should learn to get lucid just by noticing that things don't make sense and are strange. Definitely reality checking can help, but the awareness is the most important part. Reality checks are just for when you notice something is weird and want to verify that you're really dreaming. So try to work on awareness, and I'll try to think of more RCs that aren't dependent upon sight. One other one is jumping to see if you float down gently, although if your sight is bad I don't know how easy it would be for you to just start jumping up and down.

Originally Posted by Lucid fanatic

Yes, but its content is determined by alot of things.

have you been blind since you were a baby? I think if you could see at any point in your life you can visually lucid dream (once you have memeroies of course) But otherwise you can have lucid dreams based around touch smell and hearing etc etc.... I'm pretty certain thats it anyway

But, he can apparently see normally during his dreams, which means that he could certainly try things like visualizing during a wild and pulling upon dream memories of sight to help him along, just as during a DEILD someone will visualize the dream they were just in.

Originally Posted by oniman7

I don't see why not. Dreaming is natural for everybody, it's somewhat like a reflection of life. The only limiting factor is you won't be able to see any better than real life, unless you had seen like that in the past.

This, too, I'm not so sure about. Lots of people have hyper-vision during their lucid dreams, claiming to see more details and colors and vivid things than they've seen in RL. Depending on what physically is causing his blindness, different things may be limited in his dreams. If it's literally a problem with the eyes themselves, he'll probably be fine. Since he can see normally enough in his dreams already, he likely has the potential to keep seeing regularly or to achieve that hyper focus/vividness just like you or I could even though WE don't see that way in real life.

I think all you need to lucid dream is 1, to be able to dream in the first place. Someone asked if you were born blind but if you were born blind and were blind until now (no visual whatsoever) you can't have visual dreams because you would have no memory of what things look like but those people could still have auditory dreams.

and 2 a self awarness which would be the ability to say "I'm dreaming"

So to put it short, you just have to have dreams (which everyone has) and have a self-awarness (which everyone again has). and i would probably agree with the person who mentioned the breathing reality check for you.

You can try the hand through the hand RC.

Just try to shove one hand through the other.

I would say you can, providing that you could once see, you're brain will still remember what things look and feel like. The optical nerve plays not part in semantic memory.
Hope this helps
MW

Yeah thats my problem too. Something happened to my optical nerve when I was born.