Do you dream in color? Or black and white? It turns out that the color of your dreams is determined by what TV you watched growing up:
While almost all under 25s dream in colour, thousands of over 55s, all of whom were brought up with black and white sets, often dream in monchrome - even now.
So, to me the title seems misleading because most of us dream in color most of the time. It would make sense that people watching b/w TV dream in b/w sometimes because I'm sure we've all had dreams about the movies/news/cartoons we watch, so for the brain the surroundings of those dreams would be in b/w. I am sure they still watch the movies they enjoyed when they were younger, and the subconscious still dredges up those memories while they are asleep.
You see a road up ahead.
> Walk down road
You find yourself staring at a giant dragon sitting at the fork of the road.
> Look at dragon
The dragon is big, red, and looks hungrily at you.
>Talk to dragon
Before you can say a word the dragon picks you up and says,"Would you like to know the meaning of your life?"
Y/N?
>N
The dragon says,"The meaning of life is..."
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
Then you realize you've been woken up by your alarm clock. You curse the clock and hold your head in contempt at the rising sun.
Scored: 2/158
thanks for posting the link
I still dream primarily in B&W, though I recall a few dreams that have had one or two colors in them, à la Schindler's List and the Red girl.
Also, my dreams are notoriously surreal. Some of the scariest nightmares I've ever had were actually "normal" dreams of potential real-life tragedies. They creep the holy heck out of me!
--TwoDragons
Right?
They are always colorful, Very Bright and Radiant Colors. I do recall having a cartoon'd Dream. That was crazy in it's self. As for dreams related to how we watch T.V. in our younger years, well, I Watched A Lot of
Cartoons. But anymore the dreams I have relate to life as I know it now. It is like I go to sleep and wake up in another life role, I feel, smell, hear everything around me just like In this waking hour. Very ViViD..
YEA!!!!. Like your sight you have going on here. Keep it up.
Thanx, Kandy Kane.
and what about the people between 25-55? they were not even included in this study... do their dreams look like unfinished color-by-number pictures?
i always thought EVERYONE dreamt in b/w, but because we know what color things "should" be we perceive color in our dreams. the same for our memories. everyones' memories are black and white, but because we know "timmy was wearing a red shirt that day" we "see" a red shirt in the memory. i think that seems more likely than that of the TV transition from b/w to color.....
I'd also bet the farm that should we ever create a holographic enviroment where everything was semi transparent, you would start having dreams that way. Most likely it would be quite often during intial exposure and the decline with time.