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Dude, just think about it. Why couldn't your brain trick you into making you think you're seeing a new color? One outside the normal color spectrum? You can do anything in your dreams. Anything. A new color wouldn't even be that hard. I wouldn't classify it as an "extreme" lucid experiment anyway. Not as hard as 360 vision or controlling two bodies anyway. You shouldn't say it's impossible if you've never tried it.
Hah! 360 degree vision is easy! I've done that awake with just my imagination!

A whole new colour is too intense. Sure you could technically see beyond our spectrum by fireing off the right neurones. It is also technically possible to with the lottery jackpot 5 weeks in a row. A new colour is so beyond our capabilities, and I'm saying that as someone with perfect dream control, when lucid, and an advanced knowldge of the capabilities of my own mind. Trust me, my imagination is so strong that while awake I have felt what it feels like to be in a totally non-human body, seen 360 vision and so on.

What experience or evidence makes you think that seeing a new colour in a dream can realistically be done? Speculation? Intuition? Ignorant assumptions?

As a person who has studied the biology of the human eye and human dreams in psychological fields, as well as massive skill in control in dreams it does not make proper sense.



Jamous, I had though about this very same thing when I was about 14. Frankly, the answer is so obvious that I don't see why I'm bothering. Simply the colours could not work that way. Look at the colour spread when chosing custom colours on most computor software. There are more shades of green than any other colour. If it were true that one person were to perceve colours as the next one on, this would not work correctly. It would mean that there would be detail on certain coloured objects that some people just would not be able to see. This may be true of some (i.e. the colourblind), but the difference would be much more noticable.

On the subject of colourblindness, I happen to know a couple of people inflicted with it. They simply struggle to tell the difference between red and green. That is because they are less capable of detecting those colours and are thus less distinct. They do not see it as something different. This arguement goes someway to disproving your suggestion as it shows with known example that sight of colour does not wirk in that way.

Finally, all our eyes work the same. Sure they may be of different calabre. Some have shaper vision, some detect colour better, others see things brighter. However, the colour wavelengths are constant. If it wasn't for each person eyes would not work properly.



I don't put any faith in philosophers. They come up with some real rubbish some times. They lack the simple common sense (which I prize for its rarety) often to spot the obvious flaws. One such man after a dream about being a butterfly questioned whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly or vice versa. Anyone with any experience of dreams should be able to instantly recognise that he would be able to know, the dream would not be that long, he would have no concept of humaity, etc.