Exploring the contents of blind’s dream: A phenomenological study

Abstract

This study explores the dream content among Blinds in different areas of Pakistan like Gilgit, KPK, Sindh, Kohat, Hassan Abdal, Wah Cantt, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The purpose of the study is to examine the variables like dreaming, day dreaming, optimism and emotional regulation regarding dream content among blinds. Dreaming for blinds is less sighted and sometimes unable to understand but their dreams are unique in nature because blind see dreams without visual experiences. This study explored the elements of dreams like structure, figures, family members’ appearance, colors, good or bad events, existence of other people. It was compared to the real life aspects such as how blinds perceived their family members in dreams and how they look in real life. Data was collected by interview guidelines taken by 16 blinds. Most of them were totally blind and rest of them were partially blind. The data was analysed thematically by creating themes and codes from the interviews by researcher manually. An ethical interview guideline approved by experts was used to take interviews consisted on 23 demographic variables and four other variables such as dreaming which had 13 questions , day dreaming had 18 questions, dream optimism had 16 questions and dream emotional regulation had also 18 questions. The comparative findings of this thematic analysis concluded that some of the events of dream content of blinds is not reality based such as partially blinds perceived their family members in dreams, they are not seemed as in real life and totally blinds even can’t see their family members in dreams.