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I'll leave you with this to think about.

I had the strangest dream on Friday. I woke up having just had a dream about a conversation with another (unknown) person about blind people dreaming. In the dream I had, me and the unknown person were deliberating over how a person who was blind from birth (thus having never seen anything ever) could possibly dream about things and explain them as sights.
We must have all had dreams saying "I was walking through a forest (or something similar) and I passed some people (or a dog or any living thing) and a car (or other object) passed by, etc .
Do you get the idea?
We explain things by description of what they look like or what they actually are because we recognize them from our real world of what is known in our perception.

The question is (and was in my dream) how can a person who has been blind from birth and has no memories of sight perception perceive their dreams.
Do they explain them as feelings or use their other senses to describe their dreams.
Does anyone here know someone who has been blind from birth and can explain how or if they perceive dreams because I would be very interested to know the answer.
I'm sure some of you may feel I've made this up but I assure you that this was a real dream I had and I would have to agree it was a very profound subject to dream about, however, a damn good one to ponder over.
I haven't touched Google on this one because I want to hear some real stories about what i have asked.

Goodnight all and I look forward to some feedback.

Perhaps in this instance the dialogue might be more relevant than the subject matter. Who drove the conversation, you or your interlocutor? Can you remember both sides, If it was a true dialogue, and how the you in your dream emotions altered as the "conversation" progressed? Did both of you agree on a conclusion? Although it (he/she or sexless?) was unknown to you, unknown how? In physical make-up, mannerisms or was the identity irrelevant?
Areas for your own further exploration possibly?

What an interesting dream, Les.
A person blind from birth dreams in the same sensory world they inhabit. They could no more dream in light and colour than we can dream in a sense we don't have (for example, sensitivity to electric fields). I would think their descriptions would have to match what they experienced.
The only person I know who is blind has been so from the age of 4, but I can't ask her because she doesn't like talking about it.
It's very interesting Les and I hope someone knows someone.......