baked thought of the day

what does a blind person see in their dreams???


i thought of that last night and it had be going for a couple hours. what do you guys think? if someone blind has never seen what people or animals actually look like do they see them in their dreams or are dreams just blank with voices and sounds?

Well dreams have nothing to do with your vision what so ever. Your eyes are closed when you dream and it's basically your brain showing you these images while you sleep. Back in Psychology class our teacher answered this question and told us Blind people do dream exactly like the rest of us. So that should answer your question.

but someone who has been blind since birth has never really seen an actual image so im wondering how they appear in your dreams if you have no idea what it looks like. for instance, most of our dreams are made up of images weve seen in our past, but a blind person doesnt have the privelege of vision or images for their brain to turn into a dream

I have a better "high" though; is there a limit to space? such as a wall, barrier, or "fabric" thats rippable to potentially reach a new demension?

They do not dream like us...
People who can see can dream of actual images that they have seen before, people who are blind can just imagine what things looks like and so probably have very different thoughts.

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Originally Posted by CoMfOrTaBlYnUmB420

but someone who has been blind since birth has never really seen an actual image so im wondering how they appear in your dreams if you have no idea what it looks like. for instance, most of our dreams are made up of images weve seen in our past, but a blind person doesnt have the privelege of vision or images for their brain to turn into a dream

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Ive wondered this same thing....

Oh and Sway-z please do not try to thread jack. that is rude.:hippy:

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Originally Posted by CoMfOrTaBlYnUmB420

but someone who has been blind since birth has never really seen an actual image so im wondering how they appear in your dreams if you have no idea what it looks like. for instance, most of our dreams are made up of images weve seen in our past, but a blind person doesnt have the privelege of vision or images for their brain to turn into a dream

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They have ears, they can read with their fingers, use their hands to feel and see with. Blind people have a lot of knowledge and know pretty much what we look like and what the objects look like around them in their daily life. Now they might not exactly know what a whale looks like because that's not part of their daily routine. But I'm basically going by what Psychology class taught me because someone in the class brought up this same question.

maybe you can describe it but it would still be disproportional wouldnt it? so their dreams must be pretty trippy cuz everything would look funny

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

You can describe what something looks like to a blind person. They can use their hands to feel out the shape. The only thing they can't really imagine is color.

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Exactly.

That's pretty much the same thing our Psychology Professor told us. You can't describe or feel color but shapes and objects are things a Blind person can relate to.

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Originally Posted by CoMfOrTaBlYnUmB420

maybe you can describe it but it would still be disproportional wouldnt it? so their dreams must be pretty trippy cuz everything would look funny

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How would everything be disproportional. Do you think a Blind person touches their face and feels that one of their eyeballs is under their nose and the other one is on top of their head? They know where every body part is located and eventually understand what it looks like just from touching and feeling. They don't think we look like aliens.