XPost: alt.dreams   
   From: dicksilk@antispam.net   
      
   "Steve Britt"  wrote:    
   > I'm totally blind and have been so all my life. While I consider myself   
   > well-adjusted, once in a great while I have dreams in which I ride bikes,   
   > row boats, drive cars, and fly airplanes. In a few instances, my body   
   > physically flies. In these dreams, I'm not consciously aware of seeing: what   
   > happens instead is that my hearing  is amplified to such an extent that I am   
   > able to detect objects, both stationary and moving, in my surroundings. How   
   > I manage to stay on course, I don't know, but I always get where I'm going.   
   > I think I have these dreams because these are abilities I sometimes wish I   
   > had in my waking life.   
      
   As a person blind from birth, I would imagine that you do have hearing   
   abilities better than the average human.  It's just that in dreams, you are   
   more aware of this ability because your waking mind and body are not   
   distracting you as much.  Dreams are pure "what is."  (You know the old bit:   
   I am, and you are...)   
      
   One thought that interests me greatly:  you say you have dreams of bicycles,   
   cars, and planes, even though you have been blind from birth.  It would be   
   interesting to describe these objects to a police sketch artist and see what   
   is produced as a result, *especially* if you had color in these dreams.   
      
   Final thought:  what if these are the dreams you are having from another   
   person's perspective? or from a past life?  or simply from beyond the   
   restraints of your own physiological being?  If the *soul* can see, then   
   perhaps you may learn to see with your soul?   
      
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