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Morton
from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-02-20 04:29 [#00562684]
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Are people who are born blind able to dream? If so, what do they 'see'?
I read a dutch article about a blind guy who dreamt that he could see and that he (in his dreams) picked up a normally-pressed book, and opened it. At that moment a memory-conflict arose, 'cause he didn't have a picture or experience in his memory of what it would be like to read a book. In his dream the letters of the book became bigger and he could feel them with his hands (which is probably 'cause he in normal life used braille).
It's a very strange phenomena i think, 'cause the dreams of people who are able to see consist mostly of visuals of memories they have.
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TonePu5her
from lincoln !UK! (United Kingdom) on 2003-02-20 04:32 [#00562687]
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Probably light and tone,maybe even texture,but I highly doubt images that we could portray anyway.
Good question you've got me guessing here.
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glass_eater
from a blind nerves area (Switzerland) on 2003-02-20 04:41 [#00562697]
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actually im writing a story with a girl unable to talk (mute?) and she can talk in her dreamscape..
interesting yeah ive heard some blinds dreams stories too interesting
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magiker
from Östersund (Sweden) on 2003-02-20 04:43 [#00562700]
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It varies if you were blind from birth or not but all blind people dream in pictures. The brain does all its internal work with pictures only.
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Morton
from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-02-20 04:48 [#00562704]
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but all blind people dream in pictures
but how can people who have been blind from birth have pictures in their head? They have never seen anything, they don't know what anything looks like.
Difficult stuff..
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2003-02-20 05:00 [#00562729]
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blind people do not dream in pictures, the do not even see darkness. They just dream, feel emotions and think thoughts.
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magiker
from Östersund (Sweden) on 2003-02-20 05:02 [#00562733]
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The brain converts all impressions to pictures before it processes them. Close your eyes and touch something round, pointy, sharp or soft or whatever. It's impossible not to try and visualize the object. This should be the most obvious but it goes for smell and hearing too, and the rest of the senses.
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Kill Switch
from Belgium on 2003-02-20 05:02 [#00562734]
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I think blind people dream the pictures they interpretated with there hearing and feeling.
Interesting subject.
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2003-02-20 05:04 [#00562738]
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It would be interesting to know what the blind dream. No seriously.
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Anus_Presley
on 2003-02-20 05:09 [#00562744]
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I want to trry and explain something.
imagine everryone but YOU can see out of the tip of theirr fingerr... now you trry it... you can't, you don't see black, you don't see anything at all. well thats what it is like forr people who have been blind frrom birrth. they have no concept even of what its like to see, they can't see black so saying theirr drreams arre drreams of shade is less likely i guess to them drreaming about what I car may look like shape wise. theirr drreams will be fucked up.
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Erronous
from Netherlands, The on 2003-02-20 05:37 [#00562768]
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Apart from those dreams it's very interesting how to experience life blind. When you're deaf, you just can't hear - it's quite. When you're blind,. you can't even see a black image. How would that work??
Blind people just dream about the same way hoe they actually experience their life, with sounds, and feelings, touching and the likes. And if they weren't blind from birth, images will shoot by..
It's difficult to understand to miss something you have. I guess when a person is blind from birth, he/she won't 'miss' this ability, they never experienced how life could be with it. true right? Or is it a mental issue too - look - if your penis has never 'worked' from birth, you still could get turned on right? *God weird similarity erronous*
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Kill Switch
from Belgium on 2003-02-20 06:01 [#00562826]
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It's also fascinating that when you lose one of your senses, the other one's take over the energy of the one left behind.
So if you lose all your senses except hearing, you probably electronic music at its maximum. :-).
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Kill Switch
from Belgium on 2003-02-20 06:02 [#00562829]
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probably ENJOY electronic.
- In a word forgetting mood -
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Anus_Presley
on 2003-02-20 06:07 [#00562836]
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lol, good way to look at it.
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Morton
from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-03-11 01:38 [#00589833]
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Nice explanation :)
*taps Anus on his shoulder*
well done commander :)
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