How the Blind Dream Blindness by Yossi Kotler (2019) Our dreams are a sort of rehash of the reality we perceive, which is why most dreams are boring renditions of what recently happened or could have happened with various tweaks. So, naturally, a blind person's dream will be experienced similarly to his reality, meaning people who are born blind relive or imagine things without imagery. Those who went blind later in life will experience sight in their dreams, but the longer they lived blind the less common visual experiences will be. "My boyfriend is blind since birth. He dreams in sound, smell and touch, but not taste. I asked him to lick something in his dream but he hasn't yet. He has vivid nightmares, he dreams about being made to drive a taxi but he's still blind so he just crashes again and again. He never dreams he can see, because he has never seen," according to Reddit user the battery human. Among the few studies about blind dreams is paper published ...