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Dec 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
You should try being a Mathematician. Maths dreams are the worst... You're usually trying to solve something pretty complicated in the dream, but mathematics is such a logically strict and formal process that (because dreams never quite make logical sense) you just end up getting really frustrated. They can go on all night and you don't feel like you've slept properly.
Call me a nerd, but when I read the one comment where one guy mentions his friend that is blind, and has a much heightened sense of everything else, like they know where something is because they sense it, it reminded me of the end of the Matrix Revolutions, where although Neo cannot see with his human eyes he was able to sense his surroundings. I never took the golden-lit shots as what he was seeing, but just a visual representation of how we would "see" his sense of reality.
How can they dream in vivid color if they have never experienced that before? It's one thing to become blind and then dream in color and with sight and whatnot, but if you're blind from birth, your brain has never known sight.How can you dream of a sense you've never had?Colorblind people don't dream in full color.Normal people don't dream of ultraviolet and infrared light.
There is a comment further up the page which sounds an awful lot like an admonishment for asking this question. Since when is asking a question a bad thing, if it's meant in earnest, in an attempt to better understand something? It's ignorance that causes trouble, not understanding. Grrr! }=-)Anyway, this reminds me of a writing assignment I was given many years ago: the instructor posed the question (which I intend to post as my own Digg)...Which came first, language or thought?
drizekDec 24, 2006
They conduct classical music, just like steve jobs.
blink23Dec 24, 2006
Just because a person's eyes do not work doesn't mean they can't visualize things, even without ever actually seeing anything.
foolonthehillDec 24, 2006
You should try being a Mathematician. Maths dreams are the worst... You're usually trying to solve something pretty complicated in the dream, but mathematics is such a logically strict and formal process that (because dreams never quite make logical sense) you just end up getting really frustrated. They can go on all night and you don't feel like you've slept properly.
blandymanDec 24, 2006
Don't kill a good joke, PLEASE!
frankieb078Dec 24, 2006
Call me a nerd, but when I read the one comment where one guy mentions his friend that is blind, and has a much heightened sense of everything else, like they know where something is because they sense it, it reminded me of the end of the Matrix Revolutions, where although Neo cannot see with his human eyes he was able to sense his surroundings. I never took the golden-lit shots as what he was seeing, but just a visual representation of how we would "see" his sense of reality.
dtd00dDec 24, 2006
How can they dream in vivid color if they have never experienced that before? It's one thing to become blind and then dream in color and with sight and whatnot, but if you're blind from birth, your brain has never known sight.How can you dream of a sense you've never had?Colorblind people don't dream in full color.Normal people don't dream of ultraviolet and infrared light.
captainharlockDec 24, 2006
Latest hit Youtube video.Will it blend - blind people.Let the carnage ensue!
captainharlockDec 24, 2006
To quote HAL-9000, "Will I dream?"
Closed AccountDec 25, 2006
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kittencharmerJan 14, 2008
There is a comment further up the page which sounds an awful lot like an admonishment for asking this question. Since when is asking a question a bad thing, if it's meant in earnest, in an attempt to better understand something? It's ignorance that causes trouble, not understanding. Grrr! }=-)Anyway, this reminds me of a writing assignment I was given many years ago: the instructor posed the question (which I intend to post as my own Digg)...Which came first, language or thought?