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?
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.
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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.
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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.
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Lol therefore I'm completely wrong because all guesses are wrong and created equally with someone guessing shit tastes like rainbows.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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