
Inner Cosmos, with David Eagleman
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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How to Dream Like a Blind Person
When you slam random activity into the visual system, the connections that are essentially hot from the day's work tend to get activated. And so what happens is things can go off on weird tangents, but physics still works fine in a dream. A blind person's dream is all about hearing in touch. They don't see anything. But they say, Oh, I was, you know, moving through the living room. And then there was a big dog in the corner and I ran from it and I was scared. It's just that it is not visual because that part of their brain is no longer visual.
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