Do people who are born deaf have the ability to hear sounds in their dreams?

Question

Do people who are born deaf have the ability to hear sounds in their dreams?

Answer 1

Point first:  there's deaf and there's deaf.  After all, you already exclude people who aren't born deaf because they might REMEMBER sound.  But let's not also forget that a fetus can hear sounds while in the womb and the some babies can also lose their hearing (as from an illness) before they are born.  So again it's possible that they are exposed to sounds without ever consciously being aware of it.  There is likewise evidence of other kinds of hearing which bypass some kind of deafness by directly vibrating inner ear bones through bone conduction, perhaps, and other means.  So some people who are deaf might still form ideas about sound, even if they're not so clear as a hearing persons'.

All evidence so far suggests that barring something like the above, however, completely deaf brains accomodate to that condition.  Parts of the brain that WOULD have handled auditory input get used for other things.  Everyone does this to one extent or another - taxi drivers' brains have been found to have a direction-finding brain area of ten times' normal size, for example.  The point being that with no corresponding brain area, a completely deaf person who has never been exposed to sound would be unable to hear a sound even if perfect ears were magically given to them.  And likewise they have nothing to imagine sound with even in their dreams.

Answer 2

No. You dream with the senses you have.

A person who becomes deaf may have the ability to hear as they know what things sound like but someone who is born deaf will not hear in their dreams as they do not know how things sound

The same goes for people who have other sensory disabilities such as blindness.

Answer 3

yes. they can hear.

Answer 4

no way.

Answer 5

In my opinion, yes, they would, but in a rather different way. The fact is that even deaf people do learn to associate certain movements, such as that of a bell or moving jingle etc., with sound on the basis of what they see how people react to sound. We must understand that in our dreams, we are actually thinking rather than using any of our physical senses....... the deaf therefore should be perfectly capable of dreaming of a sound because they learn to associate sound with certain movements and reactions!!

Well, that is just my logic... I am really not sure if that is the truth, but I feel my idea seems perfectly logical.