XPost: alt.dreams   
   From: swimmer953@insightbb.com   
      
   "Dick Silk -- The Computer Tutor"  wrote in message   
   news:u4KYh.32820$G23.15155@newsreading01.news.tds.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.   
   Sorry, can't help you much there: since I was blinded in an accident after   
   birth (RLF), I have no memory of seeing fully, and therefore can't   
   incorporate physical vision into my dreams. So I perceive my surroundings   
   through hearing and touch. Interestingly, I'm not aware of tastes or smells   
   when I dream; I don't understand why.   
   >   
   > Final thought:  what if these are the dreams you are having from another   
   > person's perspective?   
   Possible, but not likely.   
   or from a past life?   
   Possible, but I don't think so.   
   or simply from beyond the   
   > restraints of your own physiological being?   
   This is an interesting possibility, and I haven't given it much thought.   
   If the *soul* can see, then   
   > perhaps you may learn to see with your soul?   
   I don't think I've reached that point in my development yet.   
   You present some interesting thoughts, Dick.   
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