No worries, it's actually a mistake I see people make commonly in some other communities. It generally comes from holding people at a remove when you're thinking about them.

Huh, interesting.... I wonder if they have tried replicating the study in other areas, or larger groups.

Thanks!

Dad's recovered fairly well and is doing good, thanks!

I've always been visually impaired to about the same degree, legally blind since birth. Over the years, it's gotten a little worse in some ways a little better in others.

I still very vividly remember the dream, because it was so detailed and it happened so frequently.

But first some backstory: My dad used to do HVAC/electrical work when I was a kid. He ran his own business and sometimes I would tag along if I was on a school break or something. There was one house he used to work at quite regularly (I think they were remodeling) that had a crawlspace under the floor from their basement (the basement wasn't as large as the whole house's footprint, so part of the duct work/electrical wiring was only accessible via the crawlspace). I remember crawling under there a couple times and it was very "scratchy" - lots of gnarled roots and sticks and things poking at you.

Well, my dream started with crawling through this crawlspace for an unusually long time and eventually emerging from the other end into a forest. After walking through the forest a bit, it would open into this clearing. The whole area was lit with a sort of ambient pale green, moonlight-like glow, but there was no visible moon or stars, just weirdly illuminated clouds.

In the middle of the clearing was a HUGE tree that had a "treehouse" that was an actual house - an old two-story white house.

I'd climb the ladder into the house and inside it was all just open, completely empty rooms with squeaky wood floors. I'd walk past the stairs into the living room (never went up them) and there were doors there that opened out onto this balcony that gave a great view of the clearing and the forest beyond. I'd go stand out there and take it all in, then the wind would really pick up.

After that, I'd go back inside the house and I'd be standing there looking around, when suddenly I'd feel something wet on my arm. Then I noticed something dripping from the ceiling. Then I realized it was blood.

That's when I would look up and see all kinds of dead bodies hanging on ropes from the ceiling.

I'd freak out at this point, run out of the house, down the ladder, back through the clearing (still very windy), into the forest and the trail just sort of closed in behind me as I ran. I'd dive back into the hole into the crawlspace and start crawling toward the basement, but all of the gnarled roots and things in the crawlspace would turn to hands that grabbed me and pulled me back toward the clearing.

That's usually the point at which I woke up. I think one time I did barely make it out of the crawlspace and back into the basement.

I had this dream off and on for months. It was probably when I was around 12.

They think I was born completely blind, but I do have some vision now. None in my left eye and a bit in my right.

Weird dreams hmm... I remember this one where me and some friends stole this guy's car and made it fly so we could fly with the dinosaurs. Another one I used to have was me and my mom stumbling across this dojo where my dad was in a karate tournament. A lot of sexual stuff, especially when it's hot at night. Honestly, I don't tend to remember my dreams that often.

Thank you! Hmm. Just based on the sample size alone, that’s not enough data to make the conclusion the article is going for. Also “congenital blindness” can be any number of disorders, some of which affect the brain, so nightmares may not be related to blindness at all in the case of this study. It looks like the article fails to account for subjects’ personal histories; the rate of abuse towards the disabled is very high and it’s possible the increase in nightmares has more to do with a higher rate of trauma in the blind participants vs the sighted ones.