Thread: colors?

I've never had any particularly overpowering colours in my dreams.

Don't a lot of people dream in black and white?

Originally posted by not_josh
Don't a lot of people dream in black and white?

i just learned that people do dream in black in white. when i dream i have colors and i even have senses. i have very very very indepth dreams. thats what got me into this lucid dreaming. last night i had a dream i was attacked by red and blue coyotes.

have never heard of anyone dreaming in black in white....

I think dreaming in black and white would be pretty rare. Afterall, you do dream see in color and if you were born sometime after the 60's, chances are, you are used to color TV as well.

I cannot say any color overpowers the others in my dreams, however, I usually see the brightest blue skies.

Originally posted by Seeker
I think dreaming in black and white would be pretty rare.

lots of people i talk to who arent that into dreaming dream in black and white. i tell them thats probably why they arent into dreaming. that must be boring.

Well, I can recall having had at least one or two b/w white dreams, but the majority are in color. However, often times there will be what I call an "overcast" where there will be a predominant color scheme, often a dark reddish/brown or a grey/blue. Often I will dream in normal colors, though nothing really seems to stick out. I think it's just because it's not as important to me as other aspects of the dream.

*gets idea*

-Amé

Hi there,

I once read that men in general are more likely to dream in black and white than women. I don't remember exactly why, but it had some physical explanation like men have less colour receptors in their eyes and are also more likely to be colour-blind. Or something.

Don't quote me on that one....

color receptpers have nothing at all to do with it. there are no immages comming in when we are dreaming. Everything is already in our heads... You are nto just your body in yoru dreams, you are absolutley everything.

Well I guess that makes sense seeing since most of us have our eyes closed when we sleep ...

But alas if you're colour-blind, and you've never seen certain colours, how would you dream of them??

i've always wondered how blind people dream....anyone got an answer?

Now that is the topic of the day to ponder.

When I dream, I know that it is in color, but for the most part, I couldnt tell you what the colors are. I mean, grass is green and skys are blue (usually), but as for what people are wearing, or any kinds of signs, or cars, it just seems to blur together untill it is "just there" instead of having a color of its own.

How do blind people dream.... hm... I can only guess, but the only thing that would make sense, is that they perceive their dream world exactly the way they perceive their waking world. So in case they've been blind their whole life, they won't see any images, but touching, smelling, hearing etc. will be just as or even more vivid than during the day.

It would be interesting to find out though if it makes a difference when they were able to see during a certain period of their lives, usually childhood, and turned blind afterwards. Do they see images in their dreams which they would never be able to see while awake because their brain still has the memory of it??

That's a very interesting issue, I guess...

Sometimes when I dream I get a washed out sort of effect. Like all colors seem to blend. A guess you would call it a Matrix style of lighting (You can see different colors, but they are all green), if you know what I mean.

But I have experianced overpowering colors like you have. Kind of cool, and kind of weird at the same time.

We have had the topic discussed a couple of times about blind people and dreaming. IF a person was blind from birth they cannot visual imagine anything. I found this hard to believe. I fought it tooth and nail, but I was proven wrong.
If you had become blind at some point in your life your mind can conceptualize images.


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Don't a lot of people dream in black and white?[/quote]

There is a sickness that makes people only dream on black and white but I don't remember it's name. I'll look up and post here.

Originally posted by MCB
Don't a lot of people dream in black and white?

There is a sickness that makes people only dream on black and white but I don't remember it's name. I'll look up and post here.

Welcome to the Forum MCB!

That would be great if you could find that out.
I have had black & white dreams. For what reason I do not know.

Hi people. I am sort of new, I allready looked around some other sites about dreaming/LD's but this one looks Way more active, and pretty (nice layout lol).

About colors, I do see colors, but not really sharp ones. Sometimes I do see some pretty bright ones. But mostly just plain, not less or more then like on tv.

Sounds however I never hear in dreams. I am not sure about this last time I had a FA (3rd in a row!). I heard this dude I was sleeping in a room with (we were staying with some relatives) making Weird ass sounds. So or he was mastrubating loudly, or I was having A weird dream. I am allmost sure I was dreaming.

I found that people who sometimes dream black 'n white are people who suffer from psychosis... You should talk to a doctor if you are having them!

Cya!

Sorry for off topic question, but "xsPAzTiC29x", are you into Spongle?

Originally posted by toshirozawa
Sorry for off topic question, but \"xsPAzTiC29x\", are you into Spongle?

HELL YEAH

I don't remember ever having any black-and-white dreams, or any dreams that have an overall color cast, though I can't say I haven't. Of course, I don't remember the colors of everything in my dreams, but I typically do remember the colors of objects that played important roles in the dream. But then again, color is already so important to me in the waking world. For some reason, I love colors, and I frequently pay attention to the colors of objects when there's no real reason to. So I'm not surprised that I usually remember the colors of important objects in dreams, too.

I normally dream in colour, but I remember once having a (non-Lucid) dream, part of which was inside a shop, and everything was black and white, including the shop keeper. I think colour came back to me later on in the dream...

Originally posted by Xei
I normally dream in colour, but I remember once having a (non-Lucid) dream, part of which was inside a shop, and everything was black and white, including the shop keeper. I think colour came back to me later on in the dream...

Xie----> your avatar is spectacular. Speaking of color
IS that a watercolor, real sky, what?

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