The Fucking Miracle Known As The Human Body.

Earlier, I had what I thought was an epiphany.

What do blind people's dreams look like?!

I thought this was a unique and interesting idea, until Roommate Googled it. Turns out, tons of people have had the same inquiry.

I guess it depends on the person and how long they've been blind. Someone who has acquired blindness will still dream visually. People and places will look as they remember them and new people will look what they imagine them to look like. But apparently, people who were born blind will have fucking auditory dreams.

Take a moment to take that in. Auditory dreams. As if normal dreams weren't strange enough. Dreams that only makes sounds must be the most horrible products of a person's imagination ever. Imagine, for a moment, an auditory wet dream. Boring.

Now consider an auditory nightmare. I can't even begin to wrap my mind around the kind of terror that these mutant dreams must bring to someone. Imagine only being able to hear the monster breathing and taunting you, but you'll never know how close it is to you. Think about only being able to hear your mother screaming for your help and begging to be released, but you have no idea where she is or what's being done to her. Fuck that. If I were blind, I'm pretty sure I'd never sleep.

After Roommate and I finished talking about the horrible nature of blind-people-dreams, we had a conversation about the incredible force of nature that is the human mind. We usually have very serious conversations like this about the human body and they usually start the same way. Here are a few examples of our genius findings:

Today.
Me: "Isn't it crazy how we can close our eyes and still see things without our eyes? Like, that's all our fucking brains."

Roommate: "Yeah! Like, I can close my eyes right now and I can still see you. Crazy."

Couple months ago.
Roommate: "Isn't it crazy how babies grow? Like, that child was an egg and a sperm cell at some point and now it's a tiny human."

Me: "I know! And eventually that tiny human will learn to walk and talk and eat by itself and then it will be a real person."

Like, three days ago.
Roommate: "Isn't it crazy that, like, everything we've ever thought about is stored in our brains?"

Me: "Uh huuuuuh. Like, even the things that we can't remember are still there. Everything we've ever witnessed is in our minds, but we just can't access them."

Shit's crazy.

- Christa