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  1. Michael Michael

    So an interesting point has been brought up from my game. Does a blind person's dreams mainly consist of feel, smell, and hearing instead of seeing?

    Sunday, 22-Jan-12 13:36:51 UTC from web
    1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

      @egnaroesroh If you lost your eyes, Achilles Desjardins had been told, you got them back in your dreams. It wasn't only the blind. Anyone, torn apart in life, dreamt the dreams of whole creatures. Quadruple amputees ran and threw footballs; the deaf heard symphonies; those who'd lost, loved again. The mind had its own inertia; grown accustomed to a certain role over so many years, it was reluctant to let go of the old paradigm. It happened eventually, of course. The bright visions faded, the music fell silent, imaginary input scaled back to something more seemly to empty eye sockets and ravaged cochleae. But it took years, decades—and in all that time, the mind would torture itself with nightly reminders of the things it once had.

      Sunday, 22-Jan-12 13:43:37 UTC from web
      1. Michael Michael

        @ceruleanspark When you look at it that way, I guess being able to do things you normally couldn't in real life is a double edged sword, huh?

        Sunday, 22-Jan-12 13:46:58 UTC from web