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March 17, 2006

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Do people with really bad eyesight also see poorly in their dreams?

    A. People with poor but consistent vision probably get used to this and don't necessarily see any better in their dreams, says Deirdre Barrett of the Harvard Medical School. However, people whose vision is in the process of rapidly worsening — from cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, etc — often report dreams where their vision is just fine or where they're noticing a degree of impairment that's much less than in their waking life. "One of my blind-for-20-years patients had about half perfect-vision dreams and about half ones where she had blank patches in her vision, which is how the process of her blindness had begun years before."


     
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