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Question: If someone was born blind!?
Since people already know what an object or thing looks like with our eyes, then we can be able to shut our eyes and visualize that object in their minds!. So when we dream, the object will show up since the picture was stored in the back of our minds!.

For example!.!.lets say I took a picture of a tree with my digital camera!. When I upload the picture of the tree into my new computer, the computer will remember my picture/file!. So whenever I type in tree, the computer will pop up the picture all because It knows what the tree looks like!.
Basically the computer is us and the digital camera is our eyes!.!.but since the blind people don't have eyes, they cannot upload that info in their minds; therefore, they can't visualize it!.

So my question here is how can a blind person dream of things/objects if he/she never have seen it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Only a blind person could really tell you!. BUT, I can see a blind person dreaming in shapes!. I think it's impossible for a blind person to know what colors are!. I would think they dream in words!.

Just imagine you being blind folded and go inside somebodies house, the more stuff you touch and hear the echoes of the room, the more you realize and visualize how things look!. In shadows I might think, like a black and white TV show!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Classic paradoxical question!

Unfortunately we cannot know!. If we ask a blind person he might answer one or another, but that still wouldn't prove anything because he doesn't KNOW what to visualize (in our terms) is, and we wouldn't be able to describe what's really going on in his mind's eye and in his dreams!.

I hope that was clear enough, like I said, it's a paradoxical question!.
Good day!.Www@QuestionHome@Com