Dreams of hearing-impaired, compared with hearing, individuals are more sensory and emotional.

An early report suggested that the sensory content of dreams differed between those who are and are not hearing impaired; more recent studies have indicated there are no differences. We surveyed 86 students attending a special needs school for the deaf regarding sensory content of their dreams, and compared the results with those of 344 hearing students attending an ordinary high school. Participants were given a 25-item questionnaire regarding remembered dreams of the preceding month that measured dream recall frequency, vividness of dreams, and the frequency of experience of 9 sensory modalities and 10 emotions. The results indicated that by controlling for dream recall frequency, the hearing-impaired participants experienced nightmares, lucid dreams, taste, smell, pain, temperature, hope, anger, fear, tense feelings, surprise, and shame more often and hearing less often than the hearing participants. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Dreaming - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research