[311/365] here's a piece of grit

[cosmolinguist]

I don't read stuff written about blind people directed for a general audience very often, and when I do it's only when I feel like seeing how terrible it is.

This is such a terrible article. It's very binarist about blindness/sightedness, it's very sighted-gaze, it's very dull.

Until the last few sentences, which I wish had citations so I could use them for my work, which is trying to make transport and streets better for blind people.

Research has found that blind people have more dreams about travel that involve unfortunate circumstances. Some of these dreams could potentially be considered nightmares. One hypothesis is that the nightmare content may mirror the difficulties blind people face while getting around in their waking life.

Huh. Until the pandemic, most of my nightmares were about travel, usually on planes. But I'm only one person, one data point.

I wonder if there's any truth to the barriers we experience in our journeys are so profound that they populate our nightmares.

I've been thinking about this for many days, since I first saw this terrible article.

Comments

[davidgillon]

I'll bet wheelchair/flying ones are common!

[lilysea]

I don't doubt it!

I don't have wheelchair/flying nightmares

my most common wheelchair nightmare is that I've gotten up, walked away from it, and now I don't know where I've left it or I am too exhausted to walk back to it