@merrykennedy647: People assume the dreams of someone blind from birth are just darkness on a loop. They aren't. They're vivid. They're simply not made of pictures. A person who has never once seen dreams in the senses they live inside. The exact texture of a particular hand. The pitch of a familiar voice. The echo that tells you a room is huge or tiny. The smell of rain arriving three minutes early. Full, detailed, emotional dreams — and not a single image anywhere in them. People who lose their sight later keep dreaming in pictures for years, and then those slowly dim and fade. The brain dreams in whatever language you fed it while you were awake. Which means dreaming was never about images to begin with. It's about meaning, replayed through whatever senses you happen to have. And that should make you stop and look hard at your own life. You think in pictures so constantly that you've half-forgotten the rest exists. But your deepest memories aren't photographs either. They're a smell that yanks you back twenty years in a single breath. A song. The weight of someone leaning into your shoulder. The temperature of a kitchen that no longer stands. You've been treating four of your senses like background noise while one of them hogged the microphone. … So sight was never the main channel. It's just the loudest one — and it drowns out the other four until you go quiet enough, often enough, to hear them again. The blind aren't missing the dream. Most of us are sleeping straight through four-fifths of ours, eyes wide open, mistaking the brightest sense for the whole of the experience. Tonight, before sleep, pull up one memory that holds no picture at all. Only sound, only touch, only smell. Tell me what surfaced — because that's the part of your own life you've been quietly skipping.

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Friday 12 June 2026 01:42:20 GMT