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Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted people
Posted by Dire Wolf on 10/11/14 at 1:23 pm00
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A new Danish study shows that blind people have considerably more nightmares than people with normal sight and those who became blind later in life.
It’s something that 41-year-old Heidi Andersen, who was born blind, can recognise. She is often plagued by nightmares and her sleep interrupted by fears of being hit by passing traffic, falling on the ground, and being followed.
“At the core of my nightmares is a feeling of complete helplessness,” says Andersen.
She is not the only blind person to experience such nightmares.
In fact, the study, recently published in the journal Sleep Medicine, shows that an average of 25 per cent of the dreams experienced by people born blind are nightmares -- while nightmares account for only six per cent of the dreams of people whose sight is intact.
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“The study confirms an already existing hypothesis that people’s nightmares are associated with emotions they experience while awake. And blind people apparently experience more threatening or dangerous situations during the day than people with normal sight,” says study lead-author Amani Meaidi, a research assistant at the Danish Centre for Sleep Medicine at Glostrup Hospital and BrainLab at the University of Copenhagen.
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Blind people have a greater need to process things
We presumably use sensory input from our everyday lives as a way of processing impressions, says Meaidi.
“Because people who lose their sight later in life have previously seen their surroundings it might be that their brains do not experience being threatened by circumstances to the same degree as people who are born blind. For this reason they may not need to process impressions from everyday life to the same extent by means of nightmares,” he says.
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by StickyFingaz on 10/11/14 at 1:27 pm to Dire Wolf
I don't understand this because you can only have people you have seen in your dreams.
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by Dire Wolf on 10/11/14 at 1:28 pm to StickyFingaz
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I don't understand this because you can only have people you have seen in your dreams.
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About 18 percent of the blind participants (both congenital and later-onset) reported tasting in at least one dream, compared with 7 percent of controls. Nearly 30 percent of the blind reported smelling in at least one dream, compared with 15 percent of controls. Almost 70 percent of the blind reported a touch sensation, compared to 45 percent of controls. And 86 percent of the blind reported hearing, compared with 64 percent of controls.
(The differences are more drastic when looking only at the congenitally blind group. Among these participants, 26 percent tasted, 40 percent smelled, 67 percent touched and 93 percent heard in at least one dream.)
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by JimMorrison on 10/11/14 at 1:36 pm to Dire Wolf
I am blind and this study is bullshite. I have great dreams.
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by Bob Sacamano on 10/11/14 at 1:37 pm to Dire Wolf
If you are born blind, how do you what anything looks like? Do they dream in sound?
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re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by JimMorrison on 10/11/14 at 1:38 pm to Bob Sacamano
We know what our body feels like so we imagine what other people look like from that knowledge.
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by beebefootballfan on 10/11/14 at 2:11 pm to Bob Sacamano
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Do they dream in sound?
My guess would be they do.
Imagine having somebody chasing you wanting to kill you and you can't see a dang thing. You would trip over everything trying to get away.
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by LSUFANDS on 10/11/14 at 2:23 pm to Bob Sacamano
My mom was born deaf and went blind around 30 yrs old and she says she doesn't have dreams at all.
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by SwaggerCopter on 10/11/14 at 2:31 pm to JimMorrison
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JimMorrison
You are lying. Because blind people don't see when they dream. They simply perceive things how they regularly do.
People who aren't born blind do see in their dreams though.
re: Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted peoplePosted by SundayFunday on 10/11/14 at 2:37 pm to Dire Wolf
Do people who have been blind from birth have nightmares as much as those who lost it during their lifetime?
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