Investigating the impact of the years of blindness on sleep rhythms, dream patterns, and spatial abilities: The BLINDREAM protocol.

ABSTRACT: Sleep health is a topic of great interest in recent years. However, it is still often undervalued in vulnerable populations, such as those with sensory disorders. A higher percentage of blind individuals experience circadian disorders, and their dreams have different sensory contents. However, many questions remain unanswered regarding the impact of blindness on overall sleep structure and how circadian desynchronization may influence them. Additionally, understanding how changes in the dream sensory contents and sleep alterations may affect daily life skills, such as spatial cognition which tends to be more challenging in blind individuals, is relevant for further comprehension of the vision role on our perception. The BLINDREAM protocol aims to investigate the interrelationships of all t

SUBMITTER: Vitali H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12221037 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature