Yes, some do but those who are congenitally blind often have dreams that include more instances of sounds or auditory dreams. If they've ever had any amount of sight they'd be able to see in color. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/42481

According to my brother-in-law who has been blind all of his life, the answer is NO due to him never having a referance to colors. Example, while in school he was described what a cloud is and looked like and color etc and then given cotton to feel. To him cotton is a cloud and is white but he cannot SEE the color just feel it. Red is described as hot and he associates that with something hot, blue is cool etc...

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. Bértolo et al. (2003) cited a number of studies of waking imagery abilities in the blind as background for their study of dream imagery. The waking imagery studies that they cited illustrate the well-documented finding that the performance of congenitally blind people on a variety of imagery tasks is similar to performance by sighted individuals, although not always identical. Both blind and sighted individuals, for example, have been shown to be capable of using imagery as a mnemonic and of performing a variety of tasks that require imaging shapes or objects that may change in orientation or position in space. What Bértolo et al. failed to note, however, is that the research studies they cited did not lead the original authors to the conclusion that blind people experience visual imagery. Instead, researchers studying waking imagery in blind and sighted individuals have generally concluded that congenitally blind individuals' imagery has characteristics that are functionally equivalent in many ways to the characteristics of visual imagery reported by sighted individuals. The images of totally congenitally blind individuals, however, lack the uniquely visual characteristics such as color and brightness and result in slight differences from the performance of sighted individuals on several imagery tasks. Researchers therefore use the terms visual image and visual content to mean an image or experience whose properties are similar to those of an object or scene viewed visually (with one's eyes). Terms such as spatial image, analog image, and even visuospatial image have been used to describe imagery that preserves spatial and metric properties without relying specifically on the visual system. When Bértolo et al. (2003) used the term visual image, they often blurred the distinction between the two descriptive categories. They did so for three mistaken reasons. Complete info on this link. http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/kerr_2004.html

i have just asked my whole family and they have no idea. On the one hand, they probably can because dreaming has nothing to do with the eyes, but my little sister said how would they know what things look like.

this question was already asked see http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/11187

I don't know about those who were born blind because I am sure they have no idea what sight is but I am almost 100% sure that those who have lost their ability to see will be able to see in their dreams.

Yes. Just because they are blind doesn't mean they can't see dreams. Dreams are something that happen inside the mind. Blind people just can't see reality.

I think so. It would be an ultimate sight to see.

Well I don't have any personal experiences to back this up, but I bet if the blind person was not born blind they see people in their dreams. If they have always been that way then maybe they envision what people look like but it is more abstract, and more defined by other senses. Maybe they have dreams where they smell their friends???

I really do think so, it would be different to what we see but still filled with images :)

They say that dreams of the congenitally blind contain no visual elements and consist predominantly of sound plus smell, touch and the sense of movement. They tend to to be reality-based - a reprise of the events of the day, with less of the fantasy you find in the dreams of sighted people. There's also more conversation. Persons who become blind after birth often see in their dreams, although it depends on (a) how old they were when they became blind and (b) how long it's been since. If you're blinded before the age of six or seven you generally see little or nothing in your dreams. Dreams of people who become blind when older are often indistinguishable from those of the sighted, but as time goes on many "see" less and less.

I would think they do. You don't need eyes to see dreams. Very, very interesting and good question!

i think they are able to see thier dreams. when you dream you use the other side of your brain which is considered your e.s.p. so its not like when you are awake its a big difference. for ex. when you dream you see things sometimes in a not so real image or not how it is visioned when you are awake, the same as a person thats blind.

yes i am blind and i can type on this keyboard

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Yes because dreams are in the mind.