A blind Alaskan shares views about health, politics, respect, her business ideas for web accessibility, training on the Americans With Disabilities Act, societal violence of disabled folks and hate crimes, interpersoanl violence against those with disabilities, workshops exploring our ideas of independence vs. interdependence, etc. She welcomes comments from all comers.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
How do we perceive things
People wonder how blind people dream. I don't dream as much as I used to when I was younger, but we dream with the same level we could take in information in our daily life. Since I cannot see, I don't see colors or the panorama of visual stimuli, but I hear, think, imagine, and things still happen with voice or movement, or other sense. I don't know how I move around in dreams, but I have a good imagination, and I do think I am pretty intuitive. One of the often-held myths is that we tend to improve our other senses. I have pernicious allergies so that is not true for me. I really like people. I realized that when I was taking the bus and trolley in San Diego recently. Public transportation is not as good here, because of our thin tax base and lack of infrastructure. Koraling Lynne
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Interesting to hear about dreaming, M says that she dreams and I have often wondered what that is like, my dreams are intensely visual and so I wonder when she talks about her dreams so vividly, what it is perceptually for her.
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