Blind People's Dreams?

[magpies21]

What are they ilke? I feel like senses other than sight are not too abundant in my dreams, don't know about others'. I was just curious if anyone knows/has thoughts? Like, do they still have visualizations? Particularly if they were born blind, would it just be a bunch of HI type stuff?

[Hidden]

Blind people's dreams would be just like their waking lives. I'm sure you've heard that when you lose one of your senses, the others become stronger to make up for it. That would carry over into dreams. I'm guessing that someone who became blind (rather than being born blind) would still be able to see in their dreams, at least until their visual cortex prunes. Someone who was born blind would never have been able to see, and senses can't just create themselves. There was a thread about this not too long ago, btw...

[RandomNumber677]

Yeah, I was wondering how a person can dream if they are born blind and deaf, senses wouldn't really seem good enough

[magpies21]

I guess I didn't make it very clear, but my main point/question was wouldnt there still have to be visual hallucinations during the dream? They might be crazy and nonsensical, but there has to be something doesn't there?

[Hidden]

Why would there have to be visual hallucinations? They don't hallucinate while awake, do they?

[Mzzkc]

Better question: How does a person born blind (or deaf) think? Most people think mostly in sounds and visualization with feelings and abstraction playing a secondary role. That tends to be how we dream, as well. So if you can pin down how they think, I think you'll have your answer as to how they dream.

[Naiya]

My guess is that someone who has never known sight would probably have auditory dreams, but that's a very good question.

[Mkmaster2400]

I'm legally blind. I can see enough to play videogames but I need somebody to read some of the stuff. I use a screen reader on my computer so I can go online and talk to you guys on here. I can see the same way in dreams. I made a thread about this a couple months ago. I was asking people if blind people can lucid dream. I got mixed answers so I'm still not sure about it. The most I did was dream about being lucid and controling my dream. I'll be doing some research on this soon because I still want to know if blind people can ld.

[Hidden]

Mkmaster: I don't see any reason why blind people can't LD if they can dream. A lucid dream is just knowing that you're dreaming while you're in the dream, so as long as you have a nonvisual dream sign it shouldn't matter.

[Noogah]

I've read in many different places that people who became blind, and were not blind since birth, will often dream with vision.

[magpies21]

People don't think in sounds in visualizations. That's sensory perception. Sensory percpetion informs and creates many of our thoughts, it is not our actual thought. 'I am magpies' is a thought. That's complete abstraction. No visual or auditory included. Better question: How does a person born blind (or deaf) think? Most people think mostly in sounds and visualization with feelings and abstraction playing a secondary role. That tends to be how we dream, as well. So if you can pin down how they think, I think you'll have your answer as to how they dream.

[Blazeingcxh]

I wonder about this too.

[tacopalypse]

blind people do have spatial awareness though, they just get that information through their other senses rather than sight, but some region of their brain would still have to construct a 3D representation of the world for them to navigate through it. the question is how someone would be able to be aware of their surroundings without visualizing them? i have no idea lol. also, what would happen if you gave a blind person LSD? LSD jumbles all your senses together and people have reported being able to do things like see sounds while on it lol.