I was thinking about this after watching some of the performances on Stevie Wonder's tribute. Are there any studies about this? Do they have dreams at night like us? I think I've never saw this being discussed.

I think if they were once not blind they do. Idk I think I read that somewhere.

Ask a blind person

Does being blind effect the brain? Sq.

They probably have some visual representations too, but not concrete ones.

What we see in our dreams is everything we've encountered in our life, even for a split second that we don't remember. If a person is blind from birth, their process of dreaming is different, they focus more on hearing, actually only on the senses of hearing, smelling and touching.

One day I was thinking about people who are blind from birth. I was wondering, since they don't know what anything looks like for sure, what is their imagination of us. Their perception of us may be as though we 're looking like aliens or something. I don't know. That's a really interesting topic, maybe one day when you're in Cracow we'll be able to talk about that over a beer

I'm not blind, but my dreams are never images. So they most likely do.

Yes they do. However they can't see anything but they can hear and feel like in normal dreams. It's dreams with no vision.

I never thought of this

They do but their dreams are not based on viewing some images, they're connected with other senses (they hear things and feel different tastes/smells). At least that's what I read somewhere.

Why wouldnt they

Yes they dream as well. It may not be the same concept of you and I (that depends on if they were born blind or not) but yes they do dream

Usually, though it depends on why they're blind.

Blind is a blanket term that doesn't describe the actual condition. There could eye damage at the outer layers or inner cone/rod cell abnormalities, ocular nerve problems, visual processing area of brain problems.

No most dont