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Color or Black and White?
#1
Posted 21 May 2008 - 02:46 AM
When you dream, do you dream in color? Or in black in white?
I haven't done enough research into the subject to say for sure, but apparently people who dream in color are very rare. Or maybe it's that dreaming in color is rare. What say you?
For my part, I've always dreamed in vivid color.
May add poll later, we'll see.
#2
Posted 21 May 2008 - 03:18 AM
#3
Posted 21 May 2008 - 06:11 AM
#4
Posted 21 May 2008 - 08:32 AM
#5
Posted 21 May 2008 - 09:19 AM
#6
Posted 21 May 2008 - 09:24 AM
#7
Posted 21 May 2008 - 10:31 AM
And my dreams are as colorful as a rainbow 8D.
#8
Posted 21 May 2008 - 12:14 PM
#9
Posted 21 May 2008 - 01:43 PM
#10
Posted 21 May 2008 - 01:54 PM
#11
Posted 21 May 2008 - 03:51 PM
Some dreams I've had were black and white with only one or two objects that are vividly colored.. (really cool, I need to draw 'em...)
but most of the time - I tend to remember my dreams as being in color. Those are the ones that I remember having, but wasn't terribly involved in. Others, it seems like a half-painted cel where there *are* colors, but some of it's just shaded like an unfinished sketch.
#12
Posted 21 May 2008 - 05:05 PM
#13
Posted 21 May 2008 - 08:50 PM
#14
Posted 21 May 2008 - 10:54 PM
#15
Posted 22 May 2008 - 05:11 AM
Look at all the funky colors! =o
#16
Posted 22 May 2008 - 05:12 AM
I find it very odd that people can make bold statements like "nobody can see color in their dreams" or "people in dreams never have faces" as if they are scientific standards. I have heard both these claims before (color being rare is close enough) from students in a class I had on dreams. What makes them so strange is the fact that they seem so incredibly obviously simple to determine as false.
#17
Posted 22 May 2008 - 06:16 AM
And ta think... our taxpayers dollars go into studies like this > BAH!I find it very odd that people can make bold statements like "nobody can see color in their dreams" or "people in dreams never have faces" as if they are scientific standards. I have heard both these claims before (color being rare is close enough) from students in a class I had on dreams. What makes them so strange is the fact that they seem so incredibly obviously simple to determine as false.
Anyhoo, maybe certain color variations in dreams are rare, just a thought...? My dreams are in the colors you'd expect to see in real life shaded the exact same way with attention to detail... for this reason I often mistake dreams for reality.
Like that dream I had that I bought NiD and a Sega Saturn... BOY was I ticked when I woke up... I didn't even get a chance to plug it in ;_(
#18
Posted 22 May 2008 - 10:34 AM
Same. It's like saying "No one can divide 7 by 3" You can 8D! It's just odd and slightly irregular (not as much as IMAGINARY NUMBERS, though) .I find it very odd that people can make bold statements like "nobody can see color in their dreams" or "people in dreams never have faces" as if they are scientific standards. I have heard both these claims before (color being rare is close enough) from students in a class I had on dreams. What makes them so strange is the fact that they seem so incredibly obviously simple to determine as false.
And it's 2.3(repeating) if anyone is interested.
... not the best example, I know >>.
#19
Posted 22 May 2008 - 07:00 PM
Y'know, I wonder if partially that when we wake up, we remember our dreams as being in color. I've seen tons of black and white movies, but when I look back to remember them, I regard them as though they were actually in color (hah, and mainly the movie that comes to mind was Clerks.. it was filmed B&W but sometimes I tend to think of it as having been in color).
Like I said earlier, the dreams I really take note on, I recall without any flaw in my perception as being one way or the other... and the others that I remember but didn't really take too much part in have their own tones.
#20
Posted 23 May 2008 - 01:47 AM
#21
Posted 23 May 2008 - 01:59 AM
Mostly, the dreams are in rich color, but the area I dream in always seems to be either dark, very cloudy, or stormy. I have only ever seen the sun in dreams a few times, and rarely stars. This tends to make my dreams look about half-monochrome, though it's just... always dark. As in twilight dark. You can still see fine, but it's just almost nighttime dark.
There's a lot of areas in my dreamscapes that look either dead or dying, and that doesn't help much for color.
Anyone else ever dream in a darkened state like that?
#22
Posted 27 May 2008 - 03:18 AM
#23
Posted 28 May 2008 - 02:04 AM
To all who've asked about what counts in this discussion, I say anything goes. Tell us what you've experienced. It all makes for interesting conversation.
I spoke with my dad about this and he tells me he dreams in black and white. So far he's the only vote for that column.
#24
Posted 28 May 2008 - 01:24 PM
#25
Posted 30 May 2008 - 12:30 PM
...I'm rambling. My grandparents however, dream in their words black and white, which I find particularly fascinating.
#26
Posted 13 June 2008 - 10:51 PM
Also, just as a thought, maybe older people dream more often in black and white. I'm saying this based on the last three comments. My dad suggests, and I quote, 'that it may just be the fact that most everyone has been exposed to black and white pictures, cartoons, and movies. Even some cartoons have black and white parodies in them.'
...But I'm rambling now.
#27
Posted 14 June 2008 - 01:33 AM
#28
Posted 20 June 2008 - 12:06 AM
#29
Posted 23 June 2008 - 12:35 AM
#30
Posted 25 June 2008 - 04:06 AM
He was jealous of me, since I always dream in color in high detail, but the color is rarely accurate, like for example imagine mint green grass with a blue-green sky. I also have no problem doing fun stuff in my dreams, like the last time I was lucid, I flew easily. The whole time I was thinking about Nights, since I had played the game on my Saturn for the first time just a few days earlier. BEST DREAM EVER. I rarely lucid dream, maybe once or twice a year, but that dream made my whole week. I woke up crying because I was so happy.
#31
Posted 25 June 2008 - 08:00 PM
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