Do mobility-impaired people dream of walking?

I would have thought so. I would have thought that someone who can no longer walk would be ambulatory in dreams, that a person who has lost the power of speech would speak in dreams, that a person who has gone blind would see in dreams.

I would have hoped that dreams would, for a little while, restore a lost freedom or power to an individual who has become impaired.

Now I’m wondering because of my own experience. A few weeks ago a hard cast was put on my leg, immobilizing it from toe to knee. I’m spending 8 weeks getting around on crutches and trying to keep weight off the injured foot.

That first night I started dreaming of walking with crutches. By last night my routine anxiety dreams had morphed to use this theme: I was dreaming about losing my crutches and being helplessly immobile, naturally while trying to go somewhere in a hurry.

Do people with functional losses typically dream of themselves in a whole state, or do their dreams incorporate the reality of their limitations?