Are blind people able to see in their dreams?
Yes, but it would depend on when they became blind. The images of the blind are different than those of a sighted person. Only the blind know for certain what images they see in dreams. “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.” Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ————————– Drawing on a sample of 372 dreams from 15 blind adults, this paper presents two separate analyses that replicate and extend findings from previous studies. The first analysis employed DreamSearch, a software program designed for use with dream narratives, to examine the appearance of the five sensory modalities. It revealed that those blind since birth or very early childhood had (1) no visual imagery and (2) a very high percentage of gustatory, olfactory, and tactual sensory references. Brtolo et al. (2003) cited a number of studies of waking imagery abilities in the blind as
