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This is a thought which has been on my mind for quite a while now. I'm just really curious as to what blind people dream when they are sleeping? I want to explain this first before people get the wrong inpression of what i mean. About two years ago i lost my sight due to retna detachment and from experience i know that dreams are made of our visual memory, like when i had my sight i dreamnd of things which had happened and of people i met and knew. For people who are born blind i wonder what they see in their dreams and is it like an audio dream or something? Even to this day i still dream of things but for some reason, ever since i lost my sight i seem to dream alot of things that i done in the past and seem to dream alot of my childhood, it's like, i see people in my dreams which i hung around with when i was younger even though these people are not in my life anymore or i have not seen them for years. This is a very tricky one to try and explain and i hope i've don a good job of trying to express it with out people taking offence and taking it the wrong way. I'm intrested to know peoples views on this matter and intrested in what you guys have to say? SO, yeah, what do blind people dream? even though i dream myself and i know that everybody does but because i have visual memory i can still see people and colours if that makes any sence!
Looking forward to getting loads of replys! Take care for now and i'll pop in once and a while to check it out!
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what do blind people dream! well....normal things! we dream of things hapening to us that someone sighted may not and we are more likely to remember our dreams more vividly than sighted as well!
Hmmm. I suppose, like everyone else, my dreams are just a compellation of odd tid bits from the day, and just other things on my mind. As far as I know, I can't really see in the dreams either, it is more audio, and sensory stuff like that.
Not necessarily. I've been totally blind all my life and I don't remember my dreams vividly at all. Most likely they're about nothing anyway.
Although I've been blind since about age 11 or 13, I dream visually as well as tactually. Mine usually end up being weird things, like most happen in a place I'm familiar with but at the same time, the layout of it is not like it is in real life, even though I know for sure that it isn't like that. For instance, there might be an extra room in a building I I know doesn't actually have one, or an extra sidewalk or stairs that I know don't really exist on that building, so that the place is familiar to me, but it's just changed a little. There might even be to where I see whole areas of a building switched to another side of the building, where in real life that would be impossible because there is something else taking up that space. Also, I tend to see things the ways they feel when I'm touching them or moving thru them, and depending on what kind of building I'm in, or once in awhile, even just because of the name. For instance, I usually think of school floors as dark, with black or brown and brown or gray tiles. And if I'm reading something, I usually use my eyes for that also, whether it's print or Braille. As for the tactile part, I can usually remember that the best because sometimes after I've woken up, I can still imagine and feel something I had been touching or holding in my dream. I also use my hearing, but I don't remember those parts as much as the seeing and touching.
Also, as far as the people in my dreams go, most are people I know, and they keep the same voices they have in real life, although sometimes if it's a negative dream, they will change in voice and behavior into demons, which means they will still look like a person, but they will have an ugly high-pitched or otherwise unpleasant voice and will change in appearance depending on the voice and will just be scary to be around. (Thankfully, the demons thing doesn't happen often.) But in my regular dreams, they will keep the same voices they have, but if it's a usually nonverbal person, the person might be able to speak, or if it's one that would be in a wheelchair, they are usually not in one in my dreams but they usually don't go anywhere either, which means they are usually sitting or standing. And I usually see them wearing the same things depending on their voice an/or name. It's weird, but yeah.
To say all blind people remember ours better is a generalization which may or may not be true depending on the person you are working with. Now, as for the original question. I haven't been able to see at least since I was a year old, and what I could actually see before that is questionable as I've been told I did run into furnature and things like that, however, I most always dream in full color and visual effect. I rarely am blind in my dreams. I also dream as far as tactile goes and hearing; the scary ones are the completely silent ones. *smile* I have dreampt of places that I know, sometimes they're changed, but, sometimes, I also dream of places where I do not know the layout.
My dreams are mostly tactile ..consisting of cold hard rock as I climb..then smells and sounds, tastes ect..I have never seen a thing so I have no visual reference to work with. ..good question by the way.
I feel everything in my dreams, and do not dream in color since I never had any sight. Basically my dreams are how I experience things in real life.
I'm weird. Since I was born blind you would think I dream with how I am now with no vision but no. In my dreams I can see, and see well, it is rather weird. There are a few times that I dream and I am blind, but for the most part even though I have never seen before I dream and have sight in my dreams!
peoples, I have moved this topic to "let's talk" It didn't have to do anything with dating and relationships. Thanks!
ok, good to know but me i mostly dream about places i have been and remember it a lot when i do actually dream i never see in the dreams but I also never taste either meaning, that I have never eaten or drank anything in my dreams how odd
very intresting, keep them comming!!!
woops, i mean keep them coming, hehehehehe
Hi seaturtle and all,
I'm glad this topic has been moved to lets talk, because it's interesting, but since it was in the dating board, I thought it had to do with dreaming and dating, and I never read or post in the dating board. Anyway, I'm always as blind in my dreams as I am in life. I have the bone disease thing, and can't walk on my own without support, but I have walked in my dreams as normally as everyone else.I guess like most people, some dreams I remember better than others. Perhaps I won't get in to the dreams I remember unless someone asks, as that would make this post very long. Anyway, my dreams are hearing dreams.
wonderwoman
well, I dream a variity of things. mostly audio dreams, but I never remember them, so I really don't know
I've been blind since age 11 too, I'm 15. yeah, I see and hear in my dreams and remember them vividly sometimes, usually. I've always wondered that too, if you've never had sight, what do you see or how do you dream. hmmm.
yeah, that's unusual, I've never heard of aperson who's born blind seeing in their dreams.
wonderwoman
I honestly can't explain it. I see just like a regular sighted person. I see color, and shapes and everything just fine, yet I know I have never ever seen before...
Pretty much the same here, accept no one is sure what I could actually see before the age of one, however, we do know it wasn't much, and some of the places I dream of; IE a reoccurring nightmare, I know I've never "seen", but I've sort of been there...
I experience dreams the way I experience things in real life ... with one slight modification. Somehow, some way, I am able to see. Someone can be standing at the other end of the hall, and I just know they're there. The only way I'm able to describe that feeling is, well, seeing. I can see the other person standing there. How else would I explain it? I mean, I don't hear them because they usually don't say anything 'til I shout across the hall to them ... It's kind of weird, though, because I've been blind since I was three. I never thought people who were blind since birth could see in their dreams.
Well lets see when I am in bed sleeping I dream of having a new friend, getting a job some day, having my own place and just having a blast.
right, life's mition, to remember a dream clearly enough to tell if I do infact see in it... not sure.
Hmm, everyone asks me, does your hearing get better now that you can't see? And my answer to that would be, hmm, well, ahh, no not really, it's like now that i can't see, i just use my ears as my eyes. I've always had good hearing, it's just that now i don't have the distraction of my sight and that i tend to use my ears alot more now than i ever would have done before. For example, i live about 2 miles from a train station and before i lost my sight i didn't even know that the god damn train station was even there. But, shortly after i lost my sight, i heard trains every morning, and i thought to myself, god that sounds like a train, nah, it couldn't be, could it? Hmm, anyway, i kept on hearing this train each and every morning and to be honest i thought i was going away in the head, hehehehe. But, i found out that yes, it was a train station and that i wasn't hearing things, so, i found this to be really intresting that when i had my sight, i had no idea that there was a train station 2 miles from where i lived, anyways, that really made me think! Okay, i'll leave it there for now *smile*
Thanks for adding your views to my board!
i have about 15% vision in my right eye. It's interesting, my dreams seem to ajust themselves to how much sight i have. I'm losing my vision, and so, my dreams seem to know that. strange.
well I had a dream the other night about some of my fllow blinky friends and zoners, and I know that in my dream one of them could see cause he was driving the car we were all riding in. I don't remember if I could though.
blind people dream normally. Like for example, me when I dream, I'm me.... Everything is the same, I just hear things instead of seeing them. Since you had sight, you have those visual images in your brain, you know what things look like. We don't we know what things feel like and sound like. So that is how we dream...
blind people dream normally. Like for example, me when I dream, I'm me.... Everything is the same, I just hear things instead of seeing them. Since you had sight, you have those visual images in your brain, you know what things look like. We don't we know what things feel like and sound like. So that is how we dream...
well besides my dreams are often scary and weird... well I never had sight, but some times in my dreams I can see... I mean I know it wouldn't be like real sight cause I don't know how it is, but in my dreams I just know I can see and I see... I know it could sound strange, but after all, there's no limit for dreams...
very intresting!
Well normal things, just things which happened or will happen or ... just as sighted people do, just more based on hearing or feeling. Depends what we do most in life. For example, I think if you always concentrate on hearing, your dreams are based on hearing. If you are a very tactile person, this is how your dreams will be.
I think blind people see, hear and feel the same things as sighted people do in their dreams. I generally have audio, tactile and even visual dreams where I can actually see. Too many to put in this post really, even though I've been blind since birth and have only ever seen light and colour for the first four or five years of my life and my dreams are better than the real world which is why I tend to daydream and fantacise, too much perhaps. Once, for instance, I dreamed Harry Potter flew through my window, I climbed on the back of his Firebolt and we flew back to hogwarts for some quidditch training, with me on the back hanging on round his waist while he played. I was looking at it from the players, point of view, up there with the Gryffindores and Slytherins, rolling, gliding, soaring up to 150 feet above the quidditch pitch and stands, even somersalting to avoid a bludger, so that was one of the dreams I wanted to have again.
I dream about many things, good and bad... In some dreams, I have no sight and in other dreams, I have the amount of sight I had before I lost the rest of it when I was fourteen. It is interesting.