Possible to talk to someone who is dreaming?

• DeadPoet

  19 Jan 05, 23:41

  Originally posted by foxwalk:

  yesterday my boyfriend fell asleep when i was talking to him and i wasnt aware until he started to tell me pretty weird things (like we are married, and someone was trying to steal our wedding picture, and we are already working, and we are in our bedroom[when we were actually in the dorm])..
  
  the thing is i talked to him throughout his dream-sleep. when he woke 2 mintues later, he realized he had been dreaming all that.
  
  is that possible?
  
  i recorded the conversation on my hp and i find it funny to listen to the conversation.
  
  can any psychology knowledgable person comment on this?

  Hey foxwalk, please read my pm. Thanks.
• foxwalk

  20 Jan 05, 19:59

  Originally posted by DeadPoet:
  
  
  Found some studies regarding this.
  
  Studies of blind people in France, Hungary, Egypt, and the United States all found them dreaming of using their nonvisual senses -hearing, touching, smelling, tasting.
  
  For example [b]Taha, F.A. (1972). A comparative study of how sighted and blind perceive the manifest content of dreams. National Review of Social Sciences, 9(3), 28. (p.257)[/b]

  yeap, that makes sense. when non blind pple dream, they have sight, smell, hearing.. etc... so of course blind pple will dream the same way that they can percieve the world.
  
  however, it's possible for pple who are not blind to dream that he/she is. to reverse this scenario, what will it be like if a blind person dreams that he/she is not blind, and have the power of sight? will they feel disturbed and confused, much like a non-blind person would feel if he/she dreamt that he/she is blind?