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  2. How people who are blind dream - AOL

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    For sighted people, dreaming is primarily a visual A new study published in the journal Sleep Medicine focused on how the blind dream. How people who are blind dream

  3. Dream - Wikipedia

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    Some dreams may even tell elaborate stories wherein the dreamer enters entirely new, complex worlds and awakes with ideas, thoughts and feelings never experienced prior to the dream. People who are blind from birth do not have visual dreams.

  4. Rapid eye movement sleep - Wikipedia

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    Congenitally blind people, who do not typically have visual imagery in their dreams, still move their eyes in REM sleep. [16] An alternative explanation suggests that the functional purpose of REM sleep is for procedural memory processing, and the rapid eye movement is only a side effect of the brain processing the eye-related procedural memory.

  5. Woman happier than ever after fulfilling lifelong dream of ...

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    She became blind after pouring drain cleaner into her eyes because she believes she was meant to be disabled. Woman happier than ever after fulfilling lifelong dream of being blind Skip to main ...

  6. Ganzfeld effect - Wikipedia

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    A flickering ganzfeld causes geometrical patterns and colors to appear, and this is the working principle for mind machines and the dream machine. Ganzfeld induction in multiple senses is called multi-modal ganzfeld. This is usually done by wearing ganzfeld goggles in addition to headphones with a uniform stimulus.

  7. Aphantasia - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, a study found that people with aphantasia have slower reaction times than people without aphantasia in a visual search task in which they were presented with a target and a distractor. But both groups saw a similar reduction in reaction time when primed with the color of the target compared to if primed with the color of the distractor ...

  8. Blindism - Wikipedia

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    However, as of 2021 such theories do not have empirical support. [3] The lack of visual sensory feedback in blind people is known to affect the calibration process for body movement. [7] It is also suspected that reinforcement of behavior plays a role in the development of RRBs. [1] There are a variety of other theories drawing from ...

  9. Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder - Wikipedia

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    It has been estimated that non-24 occurs in more than half of all people who are totally blind. [2] [8] [9] The disorder can occur at any age, from birth onwards.It generally follows shortly after loss or removal of a person's eyes, [10] as the photosensitive ganglion cells in the retina are also removed.