Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams?
The predominance of visual content in dreams raises a fundamental issue in the formation of images and for the construction of ideas based on the activity of the visual cortex in people with visual impairments. The central question for students of the visual system and for dr...
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| author | Michael J. O. Andrade |
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| description | The predominance of visual content in dreams raises a fundamental issue in the formation of
images and for the construction of ideas based on the activity of the visual cortex in people
with visual impairments. The central question for students of the visual system and for dream
connoisseurs is: to what extent the absence or loss of vision will affect the sensory sensitivity for
dream construction. Sensory modalities other than vision (tactile and auditory) can influence the
functional development of the occipitotemporal visual system in the absence of visual stimulation
early in life. What I mean is that blind individuals have significantly less visual capacity, but they
also have an increase in the number of auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sound impressions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e7d894e112824b82939ef89da52e4a492025-08-20T00:40:23ZengThieme Revinter Publicações Ltda.Sleep Science1984-06591984-00632021-06-0114219019210.5935/1984-0063.20200068Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams?Michael J. O. Andrade0Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Psicologia - Divinópolis - MG - Brazil.The predominance of visual content in dreams raises a fundamental issue in the formation of images and for the construction of ideas based on the activity of the visual cortex in people with visual impairments. The central question for students of the visual system and for dream connoisseurs is: to what extent the absence or loss of vision will affect the sensory sensitivity for dream construction. Sensory modalities other than vision (tactile and auditory) can influence the functional development of the occipitotemporal visual system in the absence of visual stimulation early in life. What I mean is that blind individuals have significantly less visual capacity, but they also have an increase in the number of auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sound impressions.https://sleepscience.org.br/export-pdf/3006/v14n2a15.pdfsleepdreamsdeaf-blind disorders |
| spellingShingle | Michael J. O. Andrade Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams? sleep dreams deaf-blind disorders |
| title | Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams? |
| title_full | Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams? |
| title_fullStr | Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams? |
| title_short | Do congenitally blind people have visual dreams? |
| title_sort | do congenitally blind people have visual dreams |
| topic | sleep dreams deaf-blind disorders |
| url | https://sleepscience.org.br/export-pdf/3006/v14n2a15.pdf |
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