Black and white WILDs? Dreams in color?

[marcc]

^ Title explains it... Mind helping me in guiding my WILDs and visualizations in color? Thanks

[slash112]

auto suggestion might work, but im not sure about that. also, in your dream, shout aloud "TURN TO COLOUR" or something like that, i think that should work. dreams usually obey commands shouted out.

[Abra]

Before the rise of color TV, people would dream in black and white. So why not watch some cartoons? Or focus your visualizations on the rainbow? Imagine each color and one thing that is that color. When you get to purple, start over.

[Specialis Sapientia]

Before the rise of color TV, people would dream in black and white. So why not watch some cartoons? Or focus your visualizations on the rainbow? Imagine each color and one thing that is that color. When you get to purple, start over. Are you sure about that ? Why would the TV dominate our visual perception in dreams? So before the rise of black and white TV we dreamed as blind ?

[Abra]

Are you sure about that ? Why would the TV dominate our visual perception in dreams? So before the rise of black and white TV we dreamed as blind ? I'm sure. Though apparently, what you watched as a child has more impact. No, we dreamed in color before TV. Though I wonder how else our childhood TV watching habits have changed our dreams. I'm sure it's not just visual. Maybe it has distorted/exaggerated the content (as most TV shows do).

[ThreeLetterSyndrom]

Train yourself to visualize in colour. that's all I can think of

[Specialis Sapientia]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...me-dreams.html But now Miss Murzyn believes she has proved the link. She re-looked at the old studies and combined them with a survey of her own of more 60 people, half of which were over 55 and half of which were under 25. She asked the volunteers to answer a questionnaire on the colour of their dreams and their childhood exposure to film and TV. The subjects then recorded different aspects of their dreams in a diary every morning. Miss Murzyn found there was no significant difference between results drawn from the questionnaires and the dream diaries - thus proving that the previous studies were comparable. She then analysed her own data to find out whether an early exposure to black-and-white TV could still have a lasting effect on her subjects' dreams, 40 years later. Only 4.4 per cent of the under-25s' dreams were black and white. The over-55s who had had access to colour TV and film during their childhood also reported a very low proportion of just 7.3 per cent. But the over-55s who had only had access to black-and-white media reported dreaming in black and white roughly a quarter of the time. It's a study with only 60 test subject, not that credible. And those who only had access to black and white TV dreamt in B/W 25 % of their dreams Marcc I have an idea for an exercise. You choose a coulor, it can be any. Now look around and try to see everything with that colour, focus on that colour. Suddenly that colours "pops up" around you, because you have become more sensitive to it. Try with come other colours. I think this may be a good exercise to do right before going to bed.

[Sylph]

Before the rise of color TV, people would dream in black and white. I never did. And my father, on the other hand, always dreamed in black and white, and he grew up with no TV. I always thought B&W dreaming was weird, considering that's not how we see the world (most of us, anyway).

[randomdreamer]

welcome to the world of the color impaired my freind... remember that its all in your head once your lucid just focus on your surrounding and imagine it fading into color and it should work what ever you make happens happens-there is no spoon

[oniman7]

I had read somewhere before that 12% of all people dream only in Black and White. However, almost any of the "normal" dreaming impairments can be overcome by lucid dreamers. Makes me feel special. I wonder something though.... Does a blind person see in dreams? Can a color blind person create color? Can normal people create colors that the human eye can't see? Can you imagine how incredible that would be?

[slash112]

I had read somewhere before that 12% of all people dream only in Black and White. However, almost any of the "normal" dreaming impairments can be overcome by lucid dreamers. Makes me feel special. I wonder something though.... Does a blind person see in dreams? Can a color blind person create color? Can normal people create colors that the human eye can't see? Can you imagine how incredible that would be? oh my god i never thought about that before, imagine how happy a blind person would be if they could lucid dream and see. although someone born blind would be making up what stuff looks like.

[oniman7]

Does it matter? If a person born color blind saw color, they would be making it up. If a normal person saw colors that never existed, they would be making it up. It still wouldn't take away from the beauty of it all.

[Specialis Sapientia]

It's interesting, the whole thing about blind people dreaming. Apperenlty blind born people don't have any visuals in dreams, it's more thougts, sound, smell, taste and touch. There have been a case where a blind born woman had a NDE (near death experience). She had never expierenced any visuals, even black. In the NDE she could see perfectly, and see colours.

[Quark]

If Astral Projection exists, then those genetically blind should be able to perceive visual stimuli whilst projecting, for the impairment is within the physical instrument - The astral body, supposedly, transcends the physical world.

[marcc]

Well, since it's just the visual centers of the brain, it would make sense. Everything you see, you may think it's the outside world. It's not. This whole world is in your brain. If you could inspire/stimulate the visual cortex, then you would be able to see without your eyes, but it probably wouldn't be what we see with our eyes open. Maybe they'd see colors we can't since we're limited to our human, visible spectrum. Wow. Intense ^^

[oniman7]

I believe we could " fool " ourselves into doing it, the same way we can fool ourselves into being blind ( there are cases of this ). Would somebody like to test it? I would love to see the results of this.

[Quark]

Well, since it's just the visual centers of the brain, it would make sense. Everything you see, you may think it's the outside world. It's not. This whole world is in your brain. If you could inspire/stimulate the visual cortex, then you would be able to see without your eyes, but it probably wouldn't be what we see with our eyes open. Maybe they'd see colors we can't since we're limited to our human, visible spectrum. Wow. Intense ^^ Very interesting.

[Quark]

Well, since it's just the visual centers of the brain, it would make sense. Everything you see, you may think it's the outside world. It's not. This whole world is in your brain. If you could inspire/stimulate the visual cortex, then you would be able to see without your eyes, but it probably wouldn't be what we see with our eyes open. Maybe they'd see colors we can't since we're limited to our human, visible spectrum. Wow. Intense ^^ Indeed, it appears to be the case. Although the precise stimulation required to elicit specific visual patterns is unknown, it has been shown that '...electrical stimulation of the occipital lobe can elicit subjective visual sensations or phosphenes...whereas stimulation of the temporal lobe can elicit hallucinations of scenes or objects, which have a more dreamlike or recollective quality (Tong, 2003). A Phosphene, artistically, is depicted below:

[Lusense]

I heard people dreamt in black and white and my mom said she did too she was actually skeptical about lucid dreaming and thought it was one of those things with no empirical evidence (like astral projection) rather than an acknowleged occurence. I brought up the topic once and she said she dreamt in black and white too which I found odd. Never understood why some people do.

[jshumck]

Hey did you know??? That only 4.4% of those under 25 dream in black and white. Those over 55 reported a very low proportion of just 7.3%. Just thought it would be nice to post here.....

[Recidul]

And those who only had access to black and white TV dreamt in B/W 25 % of their dreams I remember when our teacher (I don't know exactly how old she is, but over 55 for sure) told us some people, she included dreams in black and white. None of us students did and we hadn't even ever heard about it.