Originally posted by LucidDreamGod


oh, sorry, I didn't want to start an argument, I had mentioned in my post, Why do people think this, and of course I dream in color, I recall a dream where I played around with color, I just made everything diffrent colors, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Oh, good!

But Mom may have intuited a good point, even if she were wrong in being quite too absolute in her expression of it. many ordinary dreams probably are in Black and White... or rather they are projected in Night Vision. You know what they say, "All Cats are Grey in the dark"... whatever the popular meaning of that phrase, it does express a literal truth, that when the quantity of light dips below a certain register, then our night vision kicks in which does not perceive so much in color, but in shaes of grey.

But that is the physical eyes. Yet we may suppose that the use of Color in our Dreams creates something of an Energy or Chemical expense to our mental resources. As a measure of energy conservation, some dreams may be in shades of grey.

Now, as for the people who say they do not remember any dreams but those that are in color. We can take that to mean that when the intensity of their dreams is beneath a certain threshold, they simply do not recall them. It is not that they do not dream in black and white, but only that they have no memory of these dreams. Yet, their baseline energy levels may be high enough where every dream is relatively intense. But, still, in a World where the question has so often come up -- are dreams always in just Black and White -- we must suppose that many dreams are in fact just in black and white.