WHEN THE BLIND DREAM.
| Everybody dreams more or less, | but have you ever reflected upon i the fact that people who are born blind have only hearing dreams ? In other words, their mental eye sees nothing ; they only hear sounds. This interesting point, fame up before a scientific society the other day. and it was found that of 1"0 j blind persons who had been ques- ! i iotied iiii the subject, those who j had been born without sight, and It hose who had become blind before ' ibeir fifth year, never saw things or faces in ihi if dreams, j On the other hand, of those whose. ■ sight was lost between the fifth and j seventh years, some did and some I did not see in their dreams ; while j ail whose eyesight was destroyed | after the .seventh year had quite !as vivid dream visions as seeing i people. JJlind persons it may be observed, dream just as frequently as do [ normal people.- From "Woman's ; Life."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 342, 4 March 1911, Page 7
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166WHEN THE BLIND DREAM. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 342, 4 March 1911, Page 7
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