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Paul:
Discuss.

EDIT: dont give some stupid 2 word answer.

take into consideration that they are blind, so it might affect their sleeping patterns.

enjoy.

Daveydude:
Yes they would dream - most definately.

Sleep is comprised of 7 stages. The seventh one is REM, or rapid eye movement, when your brain is more active then any other part of your day. At this point you dream.

Dreams are the result of communications between your working memory (things that happened that day) and your long term memory. The blind person would have dreams, however it is unlikely it would involve and visuals, as they do not know what a visual is and would have a near impossible time comprehending what one would look like. This means that although they would dream, it would be minus the visual factor including all other senses.

turtleman918:
Blind people would probably dream in taste, sound, Hearing, smell, and touch. they could plausibly dream in sight if at one point in their life they could see. i.e born with sight but lost it over time. People born blind would not be able do dream with sight.

FeanorAlmighty:
Yes.


(Not a 2 word answer as it's only one word)

KleinerTono:
i think that they would dream black and white.

some of the visual information is saved in your genes, thats why blind ppl may indirectly know, what something may look like. if your genes didnt have memory about visuals, no one could see or babies would die from information overflooding. the human body knows from birth how to handle visual information and for knowing that it needs examples, like, how humans look like, so a baby can recognize its mother as mother and not a tree oder water.

another thing is, that blind ppl create visuals in their phantasy by touching something.

so yes, blind ppl can partly dream like ppl who are not blind.

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