This is a article about what people who are blind 'see' when they dream. It also includes facts about at what age a person may still have vision dreams, or just audible dreams. Here is the Abstract, click the link below to see the full article.

"Drawing on a sample of 372 dreams from 15 blind adults, this paper presents two separate analyses that replicate and extend findings from previous studies. The first analysis employed DreamSearch, a software program designed for use with dream narratives, to examine the appearance of the five sensory modalities. It revealed that those blind since birth or very early childhood had (1) no visual imagery and (2) a very high percentage of gustatory, olfactory, and tactual sensory references. The second analysis found that both male and female participants differed from their sighted counterparts in the same ways on several Hall and Van de Castle (1966) coding categories, including a high percentage of locomotion/transportation dreams that contained at least one dreamer-involved misfortune. The findings on sensory references and dreamer-involved misfortunes in locomotion/transportation dreams are interpreted as evidence for the continuity between dream content and waking cognition."


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Craig S. Hurovitz
University of Hartford Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology

Sarah Dunn
University of California, Santa Cruz

G. William Domhoff
University of California, Santa Cruz

Harry Fiss
University of Connecticut

Hurovitz, C., Dunn, S., Domhoff, G. W., & Fiss, H. (1999). The dreams of blind men and women: A replication and extension of previous findings. Dreaming, 9, 183-193