Can a person who has been blind from birth dream of images?

What does a person whose been blind since birth dream?

• they have no visual reference, so I was wondering what and how they dream.

• Answer:

  very detailed answer with links to look at: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=99188 another link: "The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc. Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it? Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images. But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like)." http://vision.about.com/od/severevisionloss/f/blinddreams.htm