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| Q: | Do blind people dream? If they do, can they "see" in their dreams?
-Anjali Sharma (age 14)
Leaside High, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| A: | Anjali -
I considered answering your question myself, but decided that you
might prefer an answer straight from the source. So I passed your
question on to my friend, Laurie, who has been blind since she was
fairly young. Here’s what she had to say:
" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends
on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind
since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has
had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of
sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people
I’ve met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look.
To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30. "
Thanks Laurie!
-Tamara
(republished on 07/18/06) |
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