startstop Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Sangat ji How might the dreams of a blind person be like? DhanWaad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simrun255 Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 thats an interesting question, i dont know the answer though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amrikingh Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 ask a blind person 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheena Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Sangat ji How might the dreams of a blind person be like? DhanWaad I suppose you want to know how the dreams are of someone who has been blind for life, not who became blind later in life. that is a good question...i don't have a clue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheena Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Answer from somebody who has been blind since she was fairly young: " Yes, 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 such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I've met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30. " 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheena Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb99...16109.Ns.r.html Thanks for your intriguing question. Unfortunately, there has not been a lot of research in this area, but I have summarized what I have been able to find for you. The following quote is from Cecil Adams, "The dreams of the congenitally blind contain no visual elements and consist predominantly of sound plus smell, touch, and the sense of movement. Plotwise they tend to be reality- based-e.g., a reprise of the events of the day--with less of the fantasy you find in the dreams of sighted people. There's also more conversation...Helen Keller, who became blind at the age of 19 months, claimed to have "visions of ineffable beauty," which mostly involved things like pearls and whatnot". From More of the Straight Dope, Cecil Adams, Ballantine Books, 1988. One of my colleagues sent me the following response which is consistent with what Cecil Adams reports: I have a friend who's blind from birth. She said her dreams encompass the same sensory sensations she experiences when awake - sound, a sensation of touch and sometimes taste. She has no experience of anything we'd consider "sight" or color -in her dream or awake state. I also asked one of my blind students about your question. Although she lost her sight as a young child, she also reports that her dreams involve the sense organs such as sounds, smell, touch and taste, but not vision. Although his research is somewhat dated, the person who has published the most information in this area is Robert H. Blank. I have listed some of this publications below and I would suggest that you read these. A more recent source of information on this topic is found here: Qualitative aspects of sleep mentation. By Weinstein, Lissa N.; Schwartz, David G.; Arkin, Arthur M. Ellman, Steven James(Ed); Antrobus, John S.(Ed); et al. The mind in sleep: Psychology and psychophysiology (2nd ed.). (pp. 172- 213).New York, NY, USA: John Wiley & Sons (1991) xv, 588 pp. I hope this information helps you. Thanks again for this fascinating question. References: Reflections on the special senses in relation to the development of affect with special emphasis on blindness. By Robert H. Blank. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1975, Vol 23(1), 32-50. McCartney's thesis on dreams. Robert H. Blank. New Outlook for the Blind, 1958, 52, 175-176. Dreams of the blind. Robert H. Blank. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1958, 27, 158-174 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 yeah veer ji you asked an excellent question which requires more research. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalsa'z_Pyari Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 thats a real clever question... wow if only i was clever enough to answer it hhhmmm.. rel interesting 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalsa'z_Pyari Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 acctually i was thinkin about this last nite, i rekon that people that are blind from birth; i reakon their dreams may be based on their other 4 senses; touch, smell, hear, and taste. might b possible 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamic_Banda Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 I was intrested by this question, so I called an old friend who was born blind, according to him.. "Yes I dream, in my dreams I see, I see the way I see everyday.. I see what I smell, what I feel, and what I hear.. even sometimes I see what I taste. Your eyes stop you from seeing whats really there, you accept the image, and the image is the most dominant so you dont care for your other senses, in your dreams, you dont smell, or you dont taste, or hear anything do you ?? Well I do.. !" After that conversation I thought he was being mean to me for being able to see, so I asked him if he has read the da vinci code.. He's a nice guy, abit stuck up but nice.. so thats what the blind man says to dreams. Being me, I had to ask.. and his reply was.. Blind men do have wet dreams.. ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalsa'z_Pyari Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 see im psychic; i knew what blind people dream without doing any research... they dont call me Mystic Bhenji... for nothing lol 8) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalsa'z_Pyari Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 question kinda tha same as this 1: i dnt drive a car...yet but u kno wen u hear the engine; and u kno wen 2 change gears; how dus a deaf person kno wen 2 change gears? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artistformalyknownasodhi Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 from feel of the car....rev meter...more u drive cars the more u get used to wen gears should be changed.... i got ma own.... ma elanor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamic_Banda Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 they have automatics 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalsa'z_Pyari Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 from feel of the car....rev meter...more u drive cars the more u get used to wen gears should be changed.... i got ma own.... ma elanor they have automatics oh..hhmm...makes sense for a lot of things now thank you Paji'z 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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