[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the Miscellaneous category? Maybe give some free advice about: Random Weirdos? MummuM answered Saturday January 6 2007, 2:40 pm: I'm pretty sure they dream. Since everyone dreams, why couldn't they? Although I'm not sure if they can actually see their dreams, they can probably only hear them. It depends on if they were born blind or they only became blind after they got older. If they were blind since they were born, I don't think they're able to see their dreams. If they just became blind, I'm sure they'll still be able to see their dreams since they remember what things in life look like. However, you never know. Since you and I are both not blind, we wouldn't know the answer(s). [ MummuM's advice column | Ask MummuM A Question ]
haloguy answered Friday January 5 2007, 11:10 pm: Well, I'm not blind and therefore I would not know the answer to this for sure, but I think blind people would. Their dreams may not have anything visual, but may only have sounds. I mean, since humans can't read thoughts our dreams wouldn't involve a perception of the thoughts of other people. Therefore the blind most likely wouldn't have visual dreams. But yes, they would have dreams. [ haloguy's advice column | Ask haloguy A Question ]
soccergurlie1220 answered Friday January 5 2007, 7:01 pm: Yeah, at least I think they would because a blinds persons eyes are just "broken" not their mind. Their mind is still totally capable of a person who isn't blind and dreams are something that you crazy mind makes up which you don't have to see though your eye to see. [ soccergurlie1220's advice column | Ask soccergurlie1220 A Question ]
pockets answered Friday January 5 2007, 6:54 pm: Yes! I just recently asked this question in my psychology class. The things you see in dreams aren't being seen with your eyes, they're being imagined in your mind. However, if a person is born blind, they have never experienced true vision, so their brain hasn't either, but they still see something. Only a blind person can explain it.
A person who was born with vision, but then later in life went blind (from injury, macular degeneration, or other health problems) dream just like we do. [ pockets's advice column | Ask pockets A Question ]
fabulous11 answered Friday January 5 2007, 6:11 pm: Yup because you dont really have to see dreams, there when you sleep and your eyes are closed anyway.
imconfused123 answered Friday January 5 2007, 6:01 pm: yes they do.
my grandma is blind and my cousin has been blind since birth.
my cousin has them but he may not see things the way we do, cuase he has never seen . and my grandma has them just the same as every one else. its a very confuseing subject hahaha!! [ imconfused123's advice column | Ask imconfused123 A Question ]
hilda32 answered Friday January 5 2007, 5:58 pm: YUp blind people do dream What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. they still dream as though they can see, colors included. For people That are blind, peoples faces are just blurs or how they imagine they look. To them, someone like there parents looks forever 30.
Alin75 answered Friday January 5 2007, 5:58 pm: Yes. As long as they were blind from birth these dreams would be sound only. Or so i heard anyway. [ Alin75's advice column | Ask Alin75 A Question ]
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