To begin, what we’d like to distinguish is the difference between people who were born blind-like me—and people who were impaired later on life for some reason or other

1. Dennis Cunanan Ilaw
Dennis Cunanan Ilaw—that’s me!—has become quite the popular lately,
perhaps because of his eloquence, his congenial personality, and what he
honestly feels are his dashing good looks. Just kidding! But I do want to
thank everyone who’s stopped by this blog and my writings in order to read
what I have to say, and pass on comments and questions to my ready
team of co-bloggers (and my best friends). I’m sure all of you also have
wonderful stories to tell me, and whatever my team passes on, I am pretty
sure I’ll be enthralled. When people tell me stories, I feel like I can imagine
them with my other working senses—my sense of touch, of hearing, of
smell, and of taste—and that the stories can be just as meaningful to me.
I’m told I’m good at imagining!
So one of the comments passed down to me from the official Dennis
Cunanan Ilaw blog had this typed out, with one of the most popular
questions for blind people of all time:
”Dennis, I’ve still always wondered because I don’t know anyone who’s
blind: can you tell me if blind people dream in color?”
We chuckled over this, because we’d have been happy to answer
anyway—for those of you who have questions, let this be a reminder to not
be shy! We’re so happy that we’re receiving your attention, and we want to
engage in very meaningful conversations with you!
To begin, what we’d like to distinguish is the difference between people
who were born blind-like me—and people who were impaired later on life
for some reason or other. We would say that the latter has a wider base for
re-imagining color because in a previous condition, they had been able to
perceive it with their eyes, and therefore have base memories for their
encounters with it in their dreams. I have a friend who developed cataracts
that led to her blindness in her childhood, and what she says is that the
snippets of color that she has in her dreams are from the swatches of what
colors she remembered before she lost her vision. So, on that point, yes,
people who lost their sight after they were born and old enough to perceive
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2. and process images and color still dream in color and are able to identify it
as such.
But as for people who were born blind, the difference is, of course, their
minds were never exposed to the idea of image and color. Therefore, our
dreams involve the subconscious engagement of our other senses, so
much so that we remember our dreams by the noises we heard in them, or
what we think we might have touched.
I’ll end this entry by saying that all of us have dreams, and it is the senses
and how they involve the subconscious that make our dreams rich and
sometimes very meaningful—sometimes they make us happy, or scared, or
frightened. What I’d say matters is if we were able to have a good sleep
and wake up refreshed by our dreams for a new day!
Signed, Dennis Cunanan Ilaw.
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