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What do they see? What do they Dream? Can they understand colors? I have just a bunch of questions I'd like to ask someone who's blind becasue I'm nosey, but do any of you know from asking a blind person?

vincent

i remember discussing something similar with a psychology lecturer i know who was doing her PhD thesis on biological psychology of the blind and how their brains react with emotions although hers was investigating if people blind from birth respond to humour, physically the same way as sighted people...namely by smiling...because it was thought that smiling is a learned response by seeing others smile...where as some thought that you automatically smile when you find something amusing...i believe her findings supported the learned response theory

as for perception of colour in dreams....that is very interesting...although i have no idea....hahaha...sorry

I studied the dream bit for psychology, but have completely forgotten pretty much all of it, sorry. I'll have a look in my old text books later and see if I can find anything.

EDIT: Just had a quick flick through, apparently people who are born blind have dreams that are purely auditory.

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine


What do they see? They don't (black).

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
What do they Dream? What everyone else dreams, but without light.

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
Can they understand colors? No, can christians understand rationality?

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
I have just a bunch of questions I'd like to ask someone who's blind becasue I'm nosey, but do any of you know from asking a blind person?

vincent

No, It's just what I assume.

Originally posted by lord xyz
They don't (black).

How do you know they see black? It could be white they see...or blue or pink. Being blind is not like having your eyelids closed- the eyes don't work, thus the little part of your brain which translates the data usually received from the eye will just give out the base signal...could be any colour.

Originally posted by lord xyz
What everyone else dreams, but without light.
Or any vision what so ever.

Originally posted by lord xyz
No, can christians understand rationality?
Your not funny...

Originally posted by lord xyz
No, It's just what I assume.
Indeed...

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine


What do they see? What do they Dream? Can they understand colors? I have just a bunch of questions I'd like to ask someone who's blind becasue I'm nosey, but do any of you know from asking a blind person?

vincent


Ask a blind person.

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
How do you know they see black? It could be white they see...or blue or pink. Being blind is not like having your eyelids closed- the eyes don't work, thus the little part of your brain which translates the data usually received from the eye will just give out the base signal...could be any colour. I don't really see black when I shut my eyes, sometimes I see yellow or red. See, black is the abscence of colour and light, which is what blind people see, the abscence of colour and light.

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Or any vision what so ever. Yeah, what's the difference?


Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Your not funny... My not funny...what?


Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Indeed... Lol therefore I'm completely wrong because all guesses are wrong and created equally with someone guessing shit tastes like rainbows.

I wonder if there any blind people on here who can answer these questions.

I don't trust blind people.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
I wonder if there any blind people on here who can answer these questions.

Not really a ton of blind people on the Internet.

Originally posted by Zeal Ex Nihilo
Ask a blind person. Agreed. Read the Helen Keller biography.

People that have certain disabilities have extra perceptive experiences that we don't have. Maybe they could be more enhanced than ours. I cannot believe it since I have not studies this, so I cannot really comment on the "color" thing. To me how can one see color if they never saw it? Maybe there is something in their brains that have these functions. They must have something though. Maybe they are even greater than what we percieve.

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine


What do they see? What do they Dream? Can they understand colors? I have just a bunch of questions I'd like to ask someone who's blind becasue I'm nosey, but do any of you know from asking a blind person?

vincent


You'll have a perfectly easy time getting those questions answered here with all of the blind people we have on KMC.

crylaugh

Generally speaking, dream impressions mirror waking impressions. In the case of a blind-since-birth person, how ever it is they experience waking life, dreams will reflect that.

Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?


...why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Not really a ton of blind people on the Internet.

Blind people do surf the internet you know.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Blind people do surf the internet you know.

I do. In fact I know a blind person who uses the net. I'd still put good money on there being relatively few blind people on the internet, especially in relation to the number of sighted people.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I do. In fact I know a blind person who uses the net. I'd still put good money on there being relatively few blind people on the internet, especially in relation to the number of sighted people.

Well of course. Especially since there are disproportionaly small number of people that are blind in relations to those who see.

Blind people may not post on websites like this, but I am sure a lot of them read things on the interent as a whole.

It is an interesting question. I don't actually know anyone that's blind, but if I had to take a blind guess (i wish that pun hadn't been intended) I'd say it varies from the kind of blindness the person suffers from. Some might have no concept of seeing at all, other might indeed see a sort of black or flickering, I do not know. As for dreams, when I think about how I perceive dreams, it seems to me that I don't actually see dreams as such, but just interpret them in a way I am accustomed to (seeing), therefore I would assume that blind people interpret their dreams in the same way they perceive the world around you, which I can't quite imagine.

Again, that's just a layman's guess, I have no information whatsoever.

I'm guessing blind peoples dreams are mega sensual

that could be true. Hmm

like being in the smoke screen or cloud. they see nothing but smoke

Originally posted by lord xyz
They don't (black).

That seems to illustrate a severe lack of imagination and experience in a non-sighted world. Just because you and I can't absolutely define what a blind person thinks of the colour red doesn't mean there's no difference between red and green for a blind person.

seeing as every individual has different dreams anyway, blind people probably also experience different things when dreaming.

I wondered if any blind person has ever had OBE (outer body experience), Ive had these lots of times and everything is white and hazzy.

I took this from a treatse (whatever that is) on Astral Projection I found on the net...

Blind people cannot visualize AT ALL, if they have been blind since birth, but they do have a very keen sense of bodily awareness. The majority of sighted people also have great trouble with visualization of any kind, and all projection techniques depend heavily on visualization. This being the case, I developed a projection technique that does NOT depend on visualization to exert pressure on the astral body to separate. It turned out to be so much easier, and more successful, than the other visualization based techniques, that I discarded them in favour of this simple tactile method.

Note: Blind people are not blind in astral form. The astral body does not have any organs as such, it is a point of consciousness only. The astral body you are aware of while projecting is provided courtesy of the subconscious minds creative ability.



link here : http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/rbruce3.html

Interesting theories.