One more Q...you described how loss of sight has caused increase in some other senses....what about your imagination and/or dreams? Have you found that your dreams are any more or less vivid, or your visions, daydreams, imagination any more or less vivid?
No, it's a myth that your other senses get better --> you just learn to pay much better attention to them. Don't I wish: after years of shooting guns, playing in bands, and working in very loud power plants, my hearing isn't stellar anymore either.
Dreams: that's a weird topic, actually. Sometimes I dream in "full senses" mode (I was 32 when the eyesight loss occurred, so my brain is still very sight oriented). Sometimes I dream in "blind mode" with my current crap-for-vision. Sometimes I'm blind in the dream, but can still "see" everything in it -- like watching a movie about a blind man. So my more poor sub-conscious doesn't know what to do sometimes. Daydreams and fantasies are unchanged, really, from my fully-sighted days.
Again, steering the topic back to this forum: my sight loss has indeed made me more sexually oriented toward touch and feel, and not so much the usual, standard-male visual orientation. For those seven years, I couldn't see my wife and kids, nor any women, for that matter (and I missed it incredibly). Now with some restored sight, I have 'limited access' to visual stimulation.
Now imagine my being in a sex-starved marriage with a woman who isn't touch oriented, and with whom there wasn't an active sex life. When your wife turns into a dis-embodied voice out there most of the time, except for perhaps a hug once or twice a day....for days on end....I was not a happy man, at all. I gave good meaning to the term 'starving.'
-- B.
Me 50, W 45, M for 26 yrs S25, D23, S13, S10 20+ year SSM; recovery began Oct 2007
