Thread: Is it possible to dream a new color?

Is it possible you've seen it in my DJ? That's one of my far fetched goals. I honestly don't believe it's possible. You eye has cones (or rods, I dunno) that pick up three basic colors. Red, blue, and yellow (correct me if I'm wrong). I'd venture to say that we see every possible combination of that in waking life. I'd love to be able to, but I don't see any way it could happen.

I believe it is red, green and blue. Anyway, the perception of color is produced in the brain not in the eyes, so it seems possible that you can perceive a new color in your dream when you your vision is not from your eyes.

I just thought of a new question, would it be possible to see out of something other than your eyes in your dream? Like perhaps your finger? What would it look like to see out of your finger? or perhaps develop 360 degree vision?

Man I am coming up with a whole bunch of interesting questions tonight!

first off, it is red green and blue.

it could be possible, since in a dream colours arent made of light, they are just colours which you think of.

and ive heard of 360 vision, im pretty sure thats been done.

This is all theoretical on my part, but if you look at a standard color wheel you'll notice that the blue parts of the spectrum seem awfully compressed compared to the reds and especially the greens. Your eyes, you see, suck at blue. While dreaming your mind is formulating all your visuals internally, so it may be possible to create a color wheel in your dream that is evenly spread out is if your eyes were capable of perceiving equal amounts of red, green, and blue. While you're awake you're at the mercy of your sense organs, but while dreaming... perhaps not?

Originally Posted by Mercen_505

Your eyes, you see, suck at blue.

Our eyes don't necessarily suck at blue it's just as blue is a result of close wavelengths, when those wavelengths become closer they stop being light and become UV radiation, which we can't see.

It's probably not possible to come up with a new colour because new colours don't exist, when they vary too much from the RGB scale the stop being colours,

definitely a cool dream goal. Only issue I see with this is describing the color later on.

Also it's important for the color to be a true color/tint and not something like say, purple-goldenish

for an even longer answer- everything in a dream is based upon your past experience, so if you haven't seen a new colour in WL your brain doesn't know what to feed your sight sense. I would say no, we can only see in dreams the colours we see in WL.

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Originally Posted by yuriythebest

Only issue I see with this is describing the color later on.

"I SAW A NEW COLOR IN MY DREAM!! IT WAS-- it- it was kinda like... red, but, not really red, kinda- maybe, blue? But not purple. More like-- yellowish, it... it... well, it kinda- well actually it was... no... I- *sigh*"