I was thinking about how dreams are just our brains processing visual data from our waking lives. But if someone has never had visual data to begin with, what does a dream actually look like to them? Is it just a radio play with physical sensations? Has there ever been a study on this?

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[–] 12 points 5 months ago

Im assuming thier dreams would be the same as how they experience life, just like us

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Here is a study i found titled

    Mental Imagery in Dreams of Congenitally Blind People

    https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/10/1394

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    The vast majority of blind people can see the sun. Blind really means that their vision is so bad that we cannot correct it to anything close to normal and not that they see anything at all. Each experience is different, but likely they can see enough that for purposes of your question they are not blind.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Only a VERY tiny number of people see complete black. Most blind people are more functionally blind than literally so. That is, their vision is so bad that they need some sort of accommodation to adjust. They DO see the world but not in the way that typical vision does.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I was thinking about how dreams are just our brains processing visual data from our waking lives.

    Do you not have sounds and or other sensory experiences in your dreams?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Actually, now that I think about it, kind of but mostly no. Things that happen in the waking world get incorporated into my dreams, but in my actual dreams, I mostly just tell myself I heard something, but I don't actually hear it in the moment. I.e., if I hear music, it's more like I'm reciting the lyrics in my head and working backwards.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Wild, I hear things in my dreams. One time I followed the song Sleep by MCR to a phonograph and when I took the needle off I woke up. If I hear real sounds while I am sleeping my dreams will incorporate them. Actually, now that I'm typing it what I am typing is also wild. Dreams are crazy.

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