Hopefully this doesn’t offend anyone and its something of an assumption that blind people do have dreams but surely the lack of sight doesn’t stop someone’s brain from being able to hallucinate?
Here’s someone who’s been blind since birth talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpUW9pm9wxs
Very interesting that he notes smell. I don’t believe I’ve ever taken note of that sense in my dreams, but it makes sense that someone completely blind might.
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Blind people can do complex math, like calculus, and write code. I’d think they have some kind of logical representation of abstract concepts. I’ve had dreams like that where everything was dark and it was just these abstract concepts.
Also you can hear sounds in your dreams right?
Actually that’s a great question. I can’t recall ever actually hearing anything in my dreams.
Don’t you talk to characters in your dreams? I do it all the time.
In fact I’d think it was weird if you didn’t do that. Or am I the weird one?
I talk to people in my dreams all the time. Normally they want to kill me, though.
I am very normal.
I definitely have conversations in my dreams, but I don’t think I can actually hear them. It never even occurred to me until this conversation. I think it’s a telepathic link. I can’t think of any dreams where I hear any sound, with the exception of one vivid dream where I dreamt that the city near me got nuked, and I heard the explosion.
World domination?
Sounds peaceful 😇
Is that you Brain, zoik?
As a counter point to your question, I am a fully sighted person and I rarely have dreams that involve vision, or only partially involve it. Sort of always blurry/like being in a fog. So dreams for me are far more about the other senses, or just conceptual in nature.
Not all blind people are fully blind, and not all fully blind people were born blind.
Some people who became blind still see in their dreams while others claim to have stopped seeing in their dreams as well.
Not only that, but most blind people can “see” changes in light, meaning they have at least observe in the form of a single pixel.
“Single pixel” is an interesting way of putting it.
That comment made me imagine a bunch of people sitting in a movie theater, watching a film that consists of nothing but a giant square that keeps changing colors and brightness, with the soundtrack from another film. The film is called “Blindness Simulator.”
Sounds like something I’d watch.
So fascinating! Thank you 🙂
Most blind people have vision. Complete blindness is rare
Correct, but I’m going to assume OP is talking about people that are totally blind from birth.
Sure, I’m just adding context.
As a blind person, I can tell you that we have dreams just like anybody else.
Hold the phone.
Blind people know what my dreams are like?
You have the naked-in-public and teeth-falling-out dreams, right?
It’s more like the public has nightmares of seeing me naked.
Don’t sell yourself short, big mike
Since dreams also include sound, touch, kinaesthesia, and smell, I imagine a combination of those.
Lel, of course they dream. Whether they see stuff in their dreams likely depends on whether they they never had sight in the first place, or lost it at some point in their lives.
How do deaf people talk in their sleep?
And what about people with aphantasia?
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