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How Deaf People Experience Dreams
Episode 72 explores how deaf and hard-of-hearing people experience dreams through communication, memory, and sensory perception. People born deaf may have dreams centered more on visual information, sign language, facial expressions, touch, vibration, movement, and spatial awareness rather than conventional sound.
People who lose their hearing later in life may continue to hear voices, music, and other remembered sounds in dreams because the brain can recreate auditory memories long after hearing has changed. Hard-of-hearing dreamers may experience a mixture of clear sound, muffled speech…
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