By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 17:10, 10 March 2012 | UPDATED: 17:17, 10 March 2012
Most people have wondered about how blind people experience things that sighted people often take for granted, like having a dream or using paper money.
Now there is a YouTube channel answering the many questions sighted people often wish they could ask a blind person.
Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, hosts the popular series in which he cheerfully and charmingly gives people an insight into what it's like to be blind.
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Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, hosts the popular series in which he cheerfully and charmingly gives people an insight into what it's like to be blind
The latest video in the 'The Tommy Edison Experience' he posts his answer to the fascinating question: How do blind people dream?
Edison explains that as he has been blind since birth, he does not actually 'see' in his dreams.
'I think because I've never seen in real life, that my sub-conscious doesn't know what it'd be like to see, either, so, no. I don't see in my dreams,' Edison says in the video.
'I mean, the way it works for me, is just the way my life occurs, right? So it's all smell, sound, taste and touch,' he continues.
The Tommy Edison Experience invites people to ask questions, one of the most common questions people ask is 'How do blind people dream?' Mr Edison answered this in a recent post
'That's all there is. Just like your life works. I mean, you see in your life, so, obviously, you'd see in your dreams.'
In the video, he gives his viewers an example of a typical dream.
'I mean, just like you guys, right? Weird things happen in dreams. I mean, so here I am, it's the bottom of the ninth. Runners on second and third, two men away -' and all of a sudden, it's my seventh birthday. Strange!'
As The Blind Film Critic, Mr Edison also reviews movies from the perspective of a blind person.
A new video is posted on the YouTube channel every Tuesday with Mr Edison answering questions or demonstrating how he carries out day to day tasks, like cooking, pictured
In a recent video, Mr Edison demonstrated how a blind person uses an ATM, pictured, the task took 11 minutes
He told msnbc.com that after he reviewed 'Inception' his viewers started asking him the 'how do blind people dream' question.
In his videos he has also created 'Sh** People Say To Blind People' his take on the sh-- X says to Y meme.
He also takes on tasks such as cooking alone, using a DVD player and using an ATM to give his viewers an insight into how he is lives his life.
'You see people - they're not sure what I can and cannot do. People raise their voice: 'HI, IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU.'
'People don't know how to be, and that's OK,' he told msnbc.com.
'People are curious. You don't run into a lot of me in the world. Really, you don't - there's not a lot of us, especially people who have been blind since birth.'
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