Blind people and dreams

[Marshalscienceguy]

When you sleep you can dream and see pictures playing in your head. However your eyes are shut. Now there has been the discussion brought up before can blind people dream if they have no concept of what anything looks like to begin with? So I had an idea could you make blind people see if you hooked something up to their head that would rely pictures straight to their brain? Isnt that kind of what we do now with our eyes? We are simply relying information and our brain is processing what we see. You can see when your eyes are closed such as dreams too.

Edited December 12, 2014 by Marshalscienceguy

[andrewcellini]

you dream in more than just pictures, so there's no reason to think they wouldn't have dreams; their dreams simply would be lacking visual content. typical reported dream content contains whatever senses have existed from birth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream