Dreaming in Individuals with Blindness
Abstract
What is dreaming in blind individuals like? For years, this question has been attracting much attention in science. However, dreaming is still, to a large extent, an unknown phenomenon for researchers (1, 2). Previous studies show that dreams include different sensory modalities and experiences (3).
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3. Lopes da Silva FH. Visual dreams in the congenitally blind? Trends Cogn Sci 2003; 7: 328-30.
4. Bertolo H, Paiva T, Pessoa L, et al. Visual dream content, graphical representation and EEG alpha activity in congenitally blind subjects. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 2003; 15: 277-84.
5. Zadra AL, Nielsen TA, Donderi DC. Prevalence of auditory, olfactory, and gustatory experiences in home dreams. Percept Mot Skills 1998; 87: 819-26.
6. Berger RJ, Olley P, Oswald I. The EEG, eye-movements and dreams of the blind. The Q J Exp Psychol 1962; 14: 183-6.
7. Kahn D, Stickgold R, Pace-Schott EF, et al. Dreaming and waking consciousness: A character recognition study. J Sleep Res 2000; 9: 317-25.
8. Nielsen TA, Stenstrom P. What are the memory sources of dreaming? Nature 2005; 437: 1286-9.
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| Issue | Vol 7 No 3-4 (2022): Summer-Autumn | |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.18502/jss.v7i(3-4).15253 | |
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Zangeneh Soroush M. Dreaming in Individuals with Blindness. J Sleep Sci. 2024;7(3-4):99-100.
