• Question: can blind people see their dreams?

    Asked by 322eura33 to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I guess it depends if they’ve been blind all their life or become blind.

      They dream, but it’d be a different understanding of “seeing” than those of us who luckily have sight.

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I presume that anyone who’s been blind all there life wouldn’t as they have no concept of what seeing is. Someone who lost their sight later on still has the experience of seeing and the imagination to use their “mind’s eye”.

    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Great question! I don’t know any blind people so I have no one to ask, but I would have thought that if they were once able to see then they can probably see in their dreams now. If they were born blind then they haven’t retained any visual imagery, so I don’t think they’d be able to see in their dreams.

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