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Can you see in your dreams? Can you see what you think colors might look like? I can.
Yeah, it's weird considering that I've never seen at all in my life. I can see what I think people look like, and what I think colours are like as well. Sometimes, I have 3 dimentional dreams, but not that offtern.
I used to have pretty good vision and can still see that well in my dreams.
I can't see a thing in my dreams, just as I can't see anything when I'm awake. I would think it's because my brain doesn't remember it, so it's strange if and when someone who has ben born blind can see even a little bit in their dreams. I've never had any visual sense, and what people look like doesn't interest me in the least.
wonderwoman
And the same goes for me I don't see anything when I'm dreaming I only hear voices that's about it. Lol I wish I had the luxury to see in my sleep.
Sometimes I sit on my bed and pull out of my wallet the pictures of my family and look at them for a very long time. I sometimes think that by doing this the images that resurface whether in dreams or memories will become sharper and not be so out of focus. I sometimes think that the longer I look at pictures, the longer the sharpness of images in my mind will last. lol I spent two months in the hospital without seeing any trees, and I remember asking my mom to bring me a fresh-plucked leaf from one of the trees outside. I stared at it for about ten minutes, then during the night I visualized it and the image was as sharp and as clear as the actual object. At times I feel an urgency to look at a picture or at an object for a long time because I'm afraid that if I don't, then once that dark day comes when I'm totally blind all the images will be of poor quality. lol It's a race against time, against the darkness. lol It drives me freaking mad! lol
Sometimes I sit on my bed and pull out of my wallet the pictures of my family and look at them for a very long time. I sometimes think that by doing this the images that resurface whether in dreams or memories will become sharper and not be so out of focus. I sometimes think that the longer I look at pictures, the longer the sharpness of images in my mind will last. lol I spent two months in the hospital without seeing any trees, and I remember asking my mom to bring me a fresh-plucked leaf from one of the trees outside. I stared at it for about ten minutes, then during the night I visualized it and the image was as sharp and as clear as the actual object. At times I feel an urgency to look at a picture or at an object for a long time because I'm afraid that if I don't, then once that dark day comes when I'm totally blind all the images will be of poor quality. lol It's a race against time, against the darkness. lol It drives me freaking mad!
I've had dreams of driving a car or biking, being on a scooter, etc., but I think my dreams are still akin to my waking visual field because I never see too much, it just has a bit more depth and detail in my dreams versus not having any depth perception when awake. Sounds and movements play a big part in my dreams. I once dreamed that I was sitting on a tire swing hanging from a really high tree branch and it was swinging in circles like a pendulum and I was terrified because I could see the dirty grassy ground under me and the shadows of the noontime sun poking through gaps in the canopy of leaves. When I have nightmares, most times it's of uncontrollably spinning in circles somehow. Second most often scary thing in my dreams is being alone in a car with the engine running and it rolling forward or backward slowly or just spinning in some empty parking lot. I used to sleep with the radio on and often times, whatever song was playing at the time I was dreaming entered into the dream.
I don't see in my dreams which isn't unusual because I've never seen. However, I've driven cars and buses with no problem. Guess it's that super hearing that blind people get. <lol>
Bob
Hmm, I'm not sure about the super hearing thing. I get that a lot. "your hearing must be better, cause your blind". Well, no. I don't have it in my dreams, and I don't have it in my waking life either. I've even driven cars and herd voices in my sleep as well, but I can honestly say, that I don't have this super hearing thing. btw, I'm not deaf either.
I don't see in my dreams, but I do things that would require vision in real life. For example, I've driven cars or motorcycles in my dreams just fine, without even thinking about it. Or...Oh I don't know, things that would require sight. My mind has never known vision, since I'm blind since birth, so I don't think it has a basis for comparison. But I'm not conscious of my cane in my dreams, either, or the canes and blindness of other friends who are blind in real life. Interesting. Maybe it just means that the blindness isn't the first thing I think about myself, or others.
I've never seen in my life either, but that still doesn't stop me from doing it in my dreams. I don't even have a cane in my dreams, cause my blindness isn't who I am, and that's what dreams usualy try and tell you.
I was told once that if your in a dream with lots of water around you, it means your emotional about something. I'm not sure about cars, motor bikes and such though. I once had a dream, that my dog, [one wich is dead now], was on my bed, and I could feel it where it was laying, but when I wok up, nothing was there. The weird thing was, that at the time, we didn't even hav a dog, and the place where it was, or where I thought it was, was warm.
I have a little bit of sight yes I d see in my sleep as much as I see when I am awake. And yes I think blind people can hear more than other people.
Hmm, maybe we can, but I just ment that I don't have this super hearing thing. I have my music up loud, plus I work in radio...not that that's the reason why or anything. We just like it loud. Plus, when my brother was younger, he had a car that he made like a boom box on wheels, and I used to sit in the back of that.
I don't see in my dreams ny more than I do in real life. I know it's because I don't know what it's like to see so I can't imagine it I guess.
I'm not sure If I can see in my dreams usually I have my eyes closed but I don't really pay attention to that.
I have the same vision in my dreams as in reality, but I seem to know what things are and what's around as if I could really see them with 20/20 vision.
I hope that makes sense. <grin>
Jen
It's interesting to discover the variety of dreams people have. Especially the visually-impaired. I have had dreams of driving vehicles, and some were weird because I was still blind, but somehow I knew what was in front of me, and where I was going. Even though most of the people here were born blind, I wonder if the visual cortex of the brain is still functional? I mean, like you have an electrical out-let that works, but nothing's plugged in.
I never really thought about whether or not I could see in my dreams.
I think if your described something over and over it helps. I also think that in your sleeping life, anything is possible...so seeing is possible while your asleep. Doesn't matter if in your waking life, you can't see or how much you can see. I've had a sighted friend tell me once, that they had a dream that they went blind and they could still do everything that they did in their awake life...even drive cars. So, I'm thinking that your brain knows that we can't see, but at night when we go to sleep, it opens up the parts of it that usually control sight, and let's us into that world. I personally find it comforting, cause I kno that being blind isn't all their is of my life...over the years, being able to see in my dreams has helped me through tough times, and shown me "the light at the end of the tunnel".
That makes sense.
Yeah but i ave about 25 percent vision
I can't see in my dreams because I can't see in real life. I guess that in your dreams, anything is possible. I've even had dreams that I was flying.
As a congenitally blind person, I have never experienced actual visual sensations in dreams. Even when I used to dream that I could see, or later, when I have managed to do astral projection, it seems to me that I just know what is there or that my sense of touch has become more global than in waking physical life, if that makes any sense. Now, my question to Queen Lioness Liz is this: If you have never seen, how do you know that whatever experience you call seeing in your dreams is anything like the actual sensation of vision? Understand, Liz, I'm not trying to belittle or dismiss what you're saying, and I would really like to understand the experience that you're talking about, but I think I'm asking a valid question.
Yeah, i can see in my dreams. There's a clear and vivid picture of what is actually going on and there are some instances that i'm either watching the events happen in the dream or i'm actually involved and participating in the dream. It's pretty cool. I love my dreams. They always make it better from reality.