Thread: new color

Welcome to DV, LucidJungle! Anything is possible in your dreams, but I do have a hard time imagining a new colour... give it a try and let us know if it worked?

I don't think this will be possible. Our physical vision is limited by the visible spectrum of light, and I don't think our brain can comprehend beyond that. I can't really prove this, but I don't think its possible to imagine this.

As you said yourself: the only limit is your imagination. If you can't imagine a new colour in waking life, how is it supposed to work in your dream? You might want to try and see infrared in a LD like some animals can, but your brain will come up with a solution consisting of the colours it already knows...

thanks for all the anwsers.

that infrared sounds like a cool idea.

anyway. i am going to do some experimet with this even if the ods are againt me. I cant wait to go to bed :p

Originally Posted by LucidJungle

If you are only limited by your imagination in a dream. Is it then possible to create a new color?

If so that would be a brainexpolotion.

What do you all think?




BTW first post ever

Yes! Many people have dreamt of "dream colors", colors you only see in dreams! I am sure you can even create one.

Originally Posted by imrossed

I don't think this will be possible. Our physical vision is limited by the visible spectrum of light, and I don't think our brain can comprehend beyond that. I can't really prove this, but I don't think its possible to imagine this.

I am imagining dream colors right now.

Sparkeling attitude WakingNomad i like it. Hopefully my brain will explode tonight when i disscover a new color. Fingers crossed.

Mantra tonight: i will become lucid tonight so my brain explodes when i find a new color. :p

Please leave any thoughts. That would be awsome.

Originally Posted by LucidJungle

Sparkeling attitude WakingNomad i like it. Hopefully my brain will explode tonight when i disscover a new color. Fingers crossed.

Mantra tonight: i will become lucid tonight so my brain explodes when i find a new color. :p

Please leave any thoughts. That would be awsome.

I have never looked or expected to find dream colors myself. I see them in my dreams on animals, plants, people, and love them. When I awake, I realize it's a dream color by trying to describe it when I wake up.

Maybe if you look at things (in real life, not on the internet) that are iridescent, (like a brightly colored beetle or a bird), translucent, like glowing stones in the sun, and things that are opalescent and pearlescent would help.

Or find a way to "see" ultraviolet light or something. The way bees do, for example.

Even though something like that already exists irl, I like the idea of being able to see in a dream what the naked eye irl can't.

OpheliaBlue i like the idea of ultraviolete light, it would looks awsome especially if you see it vividly in a dream, just imagine 100000 fireflies in ultraviolete color swirling around you. Just the thought makes my tailbone jiggle, if thats a thing

maybe its not possible to create a new color but one thing is fursure, you can create some amazing variation of what you already know. Like 100000 fireflies in ulrtaviolete

I also like the idea of being able to see something the nake eye cant irl. That is a big reason why i got into lucid dreaming recently

What about other senses like taste, hearing, fealing and others. Is it possible to experience somthing new in any of those senses?

Originally Posted by LucidJungle

OpheliaBlue i like the idea of ultraviolete light, it would looks awsome especially if you see it vividly in a dream, just imagine 100000 fireflies in ultraviolete color swirling around you. Just the thought makes my tailbone jiggle, if thats a thing

maybe its not possible to create a new color but one thing is fursure, you can create some amazing variation of what you already know. Like 100000 fireflies in ulrtaviolete

I also like the idea of being able to see something the nake eye cant irl. That is a big reason why i got into lucid dreaming recently

What about other senses like taste, hearing, fealing and others. Is it possible to experience somthing new in any of those senses?

As far as the other senses go, it'd be a yes/no answer. Let's say you've never had fish before, and in a dream you eat fish. Your brain is either going to give you the sense of taste of something familiar, or a mashup of previous tastes that it believes would fit a fish.

Originally Posted by imrossed

As far as the other senses go, it'd be a yes/no answer. Let's say you've never had fish before, and in a dream you eat fish. Your brain is either going to give you the sense of taste of something familiar, or a mashup of previous tastes that it believes would fit a fish.

That makes a lot of sense. i guess this idea transfers to all the other senses as well.

I am amazed on how helpful and insightfull all the people i have met on DV are. Thanks for being AWESOME

any other thoughts, questions, ideas, experienses or other things on this subject will be greatly appreciatet.

Lucidjungle OUT. i dont know what that was, sorry

I ate a bite of a chair before and it tasted like sawdust and granola.

Not sure if this counts but once in a dream I had some wonderful lavender flavored ice cream...

And there was the time I heard someone sing and it hit me like this one very light perfume...


To a degree I make similar connections in real life, but they seem somehow less random in dreams.

Just woke up from a dream where i got lucid. i was under water witch is one of my dreamsigns, and i got lucid because i started breathing and that did not seem right, so now i am lucid. I rememberd this about a new color so i tried to visualiz a ball, i am still under water. I tried to make the ball turn in to many diffrent color and it worked, but no new ones. So i gave up and tried somthing else. I told myself to swim down until i see a new color. it did not really make sense but hey, worth a shot. So i swim down for a while and it gets darker and darker. in the dark i see a light in the distance, and i start to swim towards it. As i get closer i see the color of the light. The color was Ultraviolette light, amazin ultaviolette light moving around like a wind under water. Its very hard to explain, but trust me it was amazing. From the beauty of the color flying around in the water, i got exited and i woke up.

was not able to see a new color, but this expirience is probably the most amazing thing i have ever experienced. It was literally a brainexplotion:p

thanks for the idea about ultraviolette light OpheliaBlue

YAY that's so cool! Congrats on the lucid, Jungle. You know, I get lucid sometimes from breathing underwater too. Usually I'm having a nonlucid and I'm swimming underwater in the ocean, then something in the water scares the crap out of me, so I start hyperventilating. Then I'm all "Heeeeey wait a minute..."

Anyway, I'm so glad you had this cool experience, thanks for sharing!

I will never in my life forget that expirience. i spent all day thinking about this, there was absulutley nothing else on my mind. Simply amazing.

Have anybody ever had a dream simular to this? I would love to read about your expirience

Originally Posted by LucidJungle

I will never in my life forget that expirience. i spent all day thinking about this, there was absulutley nothing else on my mind. Simply amazing.

Have anybody ever had a dream simular to this? I would love to read about your expirience

About 1997 I had a very vivid and gorgeous dream. I was in a place with rolling green hills, and a big blue sky with a few tall trees on the hills. There was a dead hippo on one of the hills. I saw its ghost come out of its body, and kind of expand like smoke or a bubble getting blown up. I called the colors green and blue, but they were actually dream colors, and green and blue are what they are closest to. The hippo ghost was very happy, and had a huge smile on its face. The hippo seemed to know I was there and was pleased that I was witnessing its ascension into the sky. The hippo was very cute and silly!
I felt like it was a real ghost, and I was actually watching a hippo's spirit leave its body. I think maybe the hippo spirit wanted me to know that I don't have to be afraid of death.

Originally Posted by imrossed

As far as the other senses go, it'd be a yes/no answer. Let's say you've never had fish before, and in a dream you eat fish. Your brain is either going to give you the sense of taste of something familiar, or a mashup of previous tastes that it believes would fit a fish.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

I ate a bite of a chair before and it tasted like sawdust and granola.

Originally Posted by acatalephobic

Not sure if this counts but once in a dream I had some wonderful lavender flavored ice cream...

In last month's ToTM, I ate a bear and it tasted like really sweet salted apple slices. I would've finished it had the texture not been so slimy and... euck.

I still wonder why my subconscious thought, "Bears? Ah, yes, bears = slimy salted apples."

Originally Posted by Maxis

I still wonder why my subconscious thought, "Bears? Ah, yes, bears = slimy salted apples."

Its wierd how our brains comes up with these quorky combinations.

I once ate a colorful flover it tasted like saltey honney. Not the best i have ever tasted but, you know its still an expirience.

Combining diffrent senses. Ever tried it. example eating with you eye, and taste with your eye. could be intresting


JUST DO IT.

Lol.

Eat a sandwich with my ear. Or view the world from my butt. Endless opportunities

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Lol.

Eat a sandwich with my ear. Or view the world from my butt. Endless opportunities

I Literally just LOLed. Everyone in my familly stared at me like i was crazy, Awkward

I always say that you can dream about anything that your brain can comprehend - for example, you can dream about flying werewolves or whatever because you understand the concepts "wolf", "savage" and "flying", which becomes a flying werewolf.
But as for a completely new colour, it becomes a bit more complicated - how can you understand this completely new colour?
You have never experienced it in waking life before, so it would be technically impossible to comprehend colours in the infrared or ultraviolet spectra.
It's kind of like trying to explain to a person who has been blind since birth what it is like to have vision.

However, you can definitely experience very amazing colours in a lucid dream, and in a sense they can almost be considered new colours since they can be ultra-vivid and feel completely different - almost as if they have a life of their own and speak to you.

Well yes to those that say that our vision is limited by the spectrum of light that is true but theres more too it than that. Its how your brain categorizes and classifies those spectrums and how many rods and cones you have in your eyes. Dogs can only perceive two primary colors and a mantis shrimp can see 17. That being said since you are not really using your actual pysical eyes in a dream what really matters is brain structure rather than rods cones or the actuall color spectrum which we cant see all of. Our brains are plastic meaning they can change with surprising ease. So with practice its more than possible to see another color if you try hard. It will probably be hard to recall at first though. Also I think when people say oh it was kinda like this color and that color what they mean is like the way orang is kinda red and sorta yellow but its its own thing. I mean just because it happens in real life dosnt mean that its not possible. Take thresixty vision there are lots of reports on that but do all of those people have eyes in the back of their head? no of course not. Blind people who have been blind lifelong have dreams with color and shape they may be vague or mind blowing but they happen. Your brein is pretty flexible. The only limitation you would face is subconsiously convincing yourself that you cant do it by dismissing the thought before trying.
Happy dreaming,
Eesiel