To sleep, perchance to dream
Since I received my cochlear implants, I've had no residual natural hearing. I'm completely deaf, except that with my implants I hear better than I have in years. But I don't sleep with them, which is fine - I'm not usually talking to anyone while I'm asleep anyway (though my husband informs me that I was talking in my sleep the other night - first time that's happened, that I'm aware of). But in my dreams, I can hear. I don't know if my brain thinks I can still hear unassisted or what, but it's kind of cool, it's the only time I can be like everyone else. The fact that it's never when I'm conscious is unfortunate, but there we are. I use my CIs and it's fine. But last night I had a dream in which, for the first time, I had cochlear implants. In the dream, I didn't have my processors, though, and I could still hear, so if this is my brain adjusting to the reality of what happened eight years ago, it's doing it in an add a...