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[DISCUSSION] Are there other totally blind people that have "sight" in their dreams? (self.Blind)
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I'm curious to hear about other's experiences with this... Maybe it's common but maybe it's not?
I lost my sight at the age of 14 and am now 38 years old. As the years have gone on, I've noticed that it's harder for me to call up a mental image of something I saw when I still had decent sight. That could be a person, place, or even something like a video game or movie etc. Needless to say, I find this pretty upsetting at times.
When I dream though, I usually have crystal clear vision. The strange thing is that I see things in my dreams that I have never actually seen. I assume my mind is using visual info from my memories and making educated guesses or assumptions on what things look like. It's strange but it's sort of fun too.
Do any other totally blind people who had sight in the past have this happen to them?
I lost my sight at the age of 14 and am now 38 years old. As the years have gone on, I've noticed that it's harder for me to call up a mental image of something I saw when I still had decent sight. That could be a person, place, or even something like a video game or movie etc. Needless to say, I find this pretty upsetting at times.
When I dream though, I usually have crystal clear vision. The strange thing is that I see things in my dreams that I have never actually seen. I assume my mind is using visual info from my memories and making educated guesses or assumptions on what things look like. It's strange but it's sort of fun too.
Do any other totally blind people who had sight in the past have this happen to them?
ABlindManPlays 4 points 3y ago
Waking up is one of the hardest reality checks I have, and it happens on a daily basis.
DrillInstructorJan 1 points 3y ago
Can I ask how long you've been in this situation? It happened to me a lot back in the day, and I found it calmed down in the end, but it took years. It's just time being the healer, I guess. My psychology may not be yours.
Now I don't get it every day, but I do get it. It's pretty much the usual dream thing, when you realise it is a dream that knowledge wakes you up, and yes that is a wrench. It doesn't ruin my day, but people often ask if I can see in my dreams, and the answer is that yes sometimes. Sometimes I can see in dreams where I'm being treated like I can't, and I find myself trying to somehow to explain that yes, I am blind, but I can see right now because we're in a... and you wake up.
There is a way in which I quite like it because I have what I think is a pretty decent memory of sight and I can certainly tell in the dreams where impossible or strange things are happening because of how they look. I think that memory of sight helps keep me behaving and looking normal, and people say I don't really look blind unless I'm doing something obviously crazy. Does any of that factor for you?
Now I don't get it every day, but I do get it. It's pretty much the usual dream thing, when you realise it is a dream that knowledge wakes you up, and yes that is a wrench. It doesn't ruin my day, but people often ask if I can see in my dreams, and the answer is that yes sometimes. Sometimes I can see in dreams where I'm being treated like I can't, and I find myself trying to somehow to explain that yes, I am blind, but I can see right now because we're in a... and you wake up.
There is a way in which I quite like it because I have what I think is a pretty decent memory of sight and I can certainly tell in the dreams where impossible or strange things are happening because of how they look. I think that memory of sight helps keep me behaving and looking normal, and people say I don't really look blind unless I'm doing something obviously crazy. Does any of that factor for you?
KingWithoutClothes 2 points 3y ago
Yes!! I have this too and it's both super fascinating and super weird. I'm not completely blind but almost. I have a tiny bit of functional vision (around 2%) left but only in one eye.
In my dreams, however, I sometimes have crystal clear vision. I used to see better as a child but never anything like this. For example I remember this one dream where I was flying over a forest and I could make out every tiny detail. I could see all the individual leaves of the trees and how the sunlight touched them in different angles. I could see the pebbles down on the hiking trail although I was a good 10 meters (30 feet) above it. I could see the unevenness of the tree trunks and the branches etc., it was incredible. After I woke up from that dream, I lied in bed for a long time trying to save all those impressions in my memory. I've had other dreams where I for example walked through a large hall (like that of a train station) and I could clearly see the people on the other side of the hall; I could see the details of how they dressed, their facial expressions and their body movements. From talking to my fully sighted wife, I think this is roughly what a person with perfect sight would be able to see. Eerily enough, though, I have never had perfect vision (far from it).
I don't really believe in supernatural stuff but it does confuse me that I can see so well in my dreams. What confuses me most is that those dreams are usually very realistic in terms of their visual impressions. To the degree that I can judge it, my brain doesn't seem to make up random stuff. I get the strange feeling that if a sighted person could actually see and analyze those dreams of mine, they would tell me that they're pretty close to reality.
In my dreams, however, I sometimes have crystal clear vision. I used to see better as a child but never anything like this. For example I remember this one dream where I was flying over a forest and I could make out every tiny detail. I could see all the individual leaves of the trees and how the sunlight touched them in different angles. I could see the pebbles down on the hiking trail although I was a good 10 meters (30 feet) above it. I could see the unevenness of the tree trunks and the branches etc., it was incredible. After I woke up from that dream, I lied in bed for a long time trying to save all those impressions in my memory. I've had other dreams where I for example walked through a large hall (like that of a train station) and I could clearly see the people on the other side of the hall; I could see the details of how they dressed, their facial expressions and their body movements. From talking to my fully sighted wife, I think this is roughly what a person with perfect sight would be able to see. Eerily enough, though, I have never had perfect vision (far from it).
I don't really believe in supernatural stuff but it does confuse me that I can see so well in my dreams. What confuses me most is that those dreams are usually very realistic in terms of their visual impressions. To the degree that I can judge it, my brain doesn't seem to make up random stuff. I get the strange feeling that if a sighted person could actually see and analyze those dreams of mine, they would tell me that they're pretty close to reality.
msimmons024 2 points 3y ago
I’m 18 but lost my vision completely around 15 and some of my dreams are with vision and some are without.
Yassine888 2 points 3y ago
Forgive me if i sound rude .but how can u type this if u lost vision completey ?
HeftyCryptographer21 2 points 3y ago
most totally blind people use some kind of text to speech software. I am Deaf, and although I am not totally blind, my vision has worsened to the point where I cannot really read print well, even if it is very big, so I use a braille display.
Yassine888 1 points 3y ago
Yes i thought of it . And i thought of someone typing in their place
Yassine888 1 points 3y ago
Holy . Im like you !!! Can we have some chat in inbox?
msimmons024 1 points 3y ago
There’s things called screen readers that pretty much act as a cursor that selects buttons or texts and reads them out and I swipe across the screen to go to different buttons. If u want to know more just look up how does voiceover work
Yassine888 1 points 3y ago
Ok thanks but . They dont help with colors right ?
msimmons024 1 points 3y ago
Mope
CloudyBeep 2 points 3y ago
Yes, this is common. A lot has been written about the unconscious mind, and it's generally acknowledged that the brain acts in a different way to when we are awake.
theetaxmancometh 2 points 3y ago
My dad has been blind for about 15 years. He tells me that he has been having hallucinations for the last few years when sleeping.
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nevereatglue 1 points 3y ago
What I don't understand is how the brain conceptualizes things that vision, the input, has faltered in processing. I'm legally blind with high residual vision, and I definitely have dreams where I can see well enough to read a newspaper or see ridges on mountains. I've also always had extremely vivid dreams, dreams in French, black and white and all the colors, switching perspectives within the dream, and also dreams within dreams. It's interesting, but I wish I didn't have so many.
Yassine888 1 points 3y ago
Im not blind . Im deaf and i hear ppl in my dreams
nevereatglue 1 points 3y ago
Is it scary? That sounds like it would be so terrifying.
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