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Originally Posted by strangest_angel
I've often wondered, how do blind people dream? Like I dream mainly in pictures. I think most people do too, if not everyone.
I think it must just be soley sound they hear throughout the dream. Kind of like an audio book. maybe?
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Nada... you won't dream mostly in pictures, they're probably just the easiest thing
While you're sleeping your brain makes the best of the spare time to organise all your memories from the day so you can wake up with a clear head for the next day (kind of like a computer backing up the RAM onto the hard drive when idle) - as all the important data is moved from place to place little snippets of it get caught by the part of your brain that's still awake making your senses and organs work etc. When this happens your brain will visualise most of the things directly related to that small piece of data, whether it be an image, a smell, a sound, an emotion, a conversation you had with someone the other day etc. Say for instance, you have one of these little flashes of data every second it becomes like a slideshow, but as your brain is catching up with all of these images, memories and feelings they all blend together - your brain makes up the gaps, which is why you can end up having some really fucked up dreams. The key parts in each of the dreams will have been things on your mind that day, whereas the wierd things that link them together will be your brain interpolating it, turning it into a story.
Sorry, I digress, blind people - will not just dream in sound - their dreams are the same as anyone else's - the only thing missing is the visual but the thought process while dreaming will still trigger all of their other senses and all their memories of events, emotions, situations, conversations.. and so on.