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Full History - 2018 - 06 - 14 - ID#8r6tnr
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Mental health researcher from London looking for dream descriptions (self.Blind)
submitted by JoshSummers
Dear r/Blind,

I am a mental health research from London and I'm writing a paper on the relationship between dreams and mental health. I was wondering if anyone on the subreddit who has been blind since birth or from a young age (or knows anyone who has) would be happy to share a few of their dreams with me for the paper?

If you would be interested in getting involved, please send me a DM or reply to me on this thread.

Thank you,
Joshua
cae_jones 1 points 5y ago
I'd love to help with this :). I've been recording my most memorable dreams since I was six. I was born with no vision in my left eye, and my right eye rapidly lost vision until stabilizing around age five, such that I could see Super Mario Bros but needed Braille in school. Then at 14, it started declining again, and was effectively total within a year. The visual content of my dreams persisted several years afterward, though the quality changed and declined. I still sometimes get visuals in dreams, but rarely, and those are comparable in quality to those scrambled channels in the high 90s from back when cable TV did that, at best.

If none of that disqualifies me, then I'm on board.
JoshSummers [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Hi Cae,

Thank you so much for responding. I think you could be a great person for the paper. I'll send you a DM and it would be great if we could set up a time to talk on Skype. I would be particularly interested in hearing about the dreams you have that lack much visual content.

Talk to you shortly I hope,
Joshua
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