Do You Dream In Color?

[arwalden]

I wish I could videotape my dreams so that I could re-watch them while I was awake... instead of just waking up with only the vaguest recollections of the dream's overall 'theme' (sex, horror, travel, death) but many of the details are gone.

I dream in muted colors. Kind of like watching aged and faded WWII home movies.

[Renew Deal]

1. The question is...

have you ever dreamed in Cartoon? I have

[arwalden]

2. John Creighton Did That Once In An Episode Of Farscape.

So... were you a cartoon character yourself? Or were you human in a cartoon world?

-- Allen

[Renew Deal]

6. I was in the cartoon world.

But no interaction.

[soothsayer]

3. do people who grew up after b/w tv/movies even debate this?

same with prior to b/w tv/movies----did folks used to debate this back then?

i have always found it hard to believe that people would dream in black and white when that doesn't occur in nature----(tho i guess you could make an argument for twilight)

[onebigbadwulf]

4. There are two types of dreams

There are REM dreams and SWS dreams.

REM (rapid eye movement) dreams are vivid, colorful, and resemble hallucigenic experiences. It is mostly narrative.


SWS (slow wave sleep) dreams are theme-oriented, black and white, and resemeble still-frame emotions/feelings. The most common SWS dream is a night-terror, where you wake up terrified but you don't know why.

[arwalden]

5. If It's Bad Enough To Wake Me Up... I Definitely Remember Why

It's usually because my ex is coming to get his revenge on me. He's hiding in the house somewhere, and I'm trying to get OUT of the house as quietly as possible without giving away my location.

It's very Hitchcock-like.

Most of my bad dreams involve an intruder in the house... even if it's not specifically my crazy-ex, it's someone else that's specifically looking to harm me (not just a burglar who breaks in not knowing that someone is home.)

Weird, huh?

-- Allen

[terrya]

7. Sometimes. But am I the only one who has some ESP moments with dreams?

I'll have a dream...and a while later experience something...and it will hit me. How I dreamed about it. It's so weird and jarring when it happens.

[trof]

8. two recurring dreams

Both aviation related.
Can't remember if color or B&W.

1. I am back in my old air national guard squadron, but it is now. I am being briefed for a mission.
Hold on. Wait a minute. I haven't flown that plane in over 30 years. I'm not current. Don't I get some kind of check-out or refresher training or something?
"No, trof. You'll be OK. It'll all come back to you."
And then I'm strapped in, at the end of the runway, running the engine up for take-off and REALLY worried. And then I wake up.
<whew>

2. I am back at TWA and I'm OK with that. It hasn't been THAT long and I still feel confident of my skills, except...
a. I don't have my uniform on. I'm not sure if it's OK for me to fly without my uniform. Wait...shit, I'M NAKED. I try to remember where I left my uniform. I find some in the aircraft coat closet, but they don't fit. They're way too small. The passengers are looking at me in shocked horror. Damn. I'm nude and they're all dressed. How'd I get into THIS? And then I wake up.
or
b. Where's my nav kit? I need my charts and approach plates and the aircraft manual. I can't fly without them. I'm looking all over the aircraft and they're not there. They're telling me I have to go, anyway. Damn. Where did I put it? And then I wake up.

And when I wake up, I realize that it was a dream and I don't have to do that any more and, greatly relieved, I go back to sleep.
I talked to a pilot friend this morning, and he has the same dreams.
:shrug:

[arwalden]

10. I Sometimes Have The "What-Am-I-Doing-Here?" Dream, Too

My two reoccurring events in the WAIDH dreams are:

1) I'm working at Waldenbooks again... only it's NOW. I have NO idea how to work the new computers. (I've only ever used microfiche to see what was in stock) and I have NO idea what the bestsellers are. I have no idea how the store is layed out. I can't even find the refund forms or gift certificates.

2) I have returned to a bad relationship, and I'm in the same house that I used to live in... only it's in the present. I'm aware that the situation isn't right, and I'm baffled as to WHAT EXACTLY happened to me that I would find myself back in that situation again. I wonder if I was kidnapped, or if my "escape" and the intervening 15 years had all been a dream. Did I never get out of the relationship at all?

Dude! You have nude dreams?? --- What kind of repressed pervert are you? :hi:

Your buddy,
-- Allen

[trof]

11. What kind of repressed prevert?

Just like all the rest of them.
;-)
Ever dream you can fly?

[arwalden]

12. Yes... But Only If I Get A Running Start Into A Good Head-Wind

... and never nude. LOL.

Although I've had plenty of dreams where I was indeed nude... I've never had dreams about awkward or inappropriate public nudity. For instance... that sex in the locker room dream. Yes, I was nude there... but it was in a locker room for pete's sake. Very appropriate. Everyone else was nude too.

-- Allen

[trof]

14. Do you do the breast stroke?

For the flying, I mean.
That seems to work best for me.

[arwalden]

15. No... but I have to hold my arms out straight like aerodynamic wings...

and I can use my feet as rudders. Somewhere in the back of my dreaming mind, it knows that I could also rely on updrafts to circle around for hours.

-- Allen

[MisterP]

26. with bat's wings,

and often with the benefit of sensation, separate from my arms (sometimes I get a tail for fast maneuvering)
but often it's merely like jumping

[amazona]

9. what causes that?

I dream in true color -- sometimes in hyper-intense color if there is a reason for it. For instance, I often dream of watching tropical birds and it is always in ideal strong sunlight coming from a neutral direction so that I have full benefit of color.

I don't fully understand why anyone who wasn't color blind would dream in muted color or black and white. It doesn't seem logical. So that's why I ask...what would cause that?

Far from lacking detail, if anything, in dreams I can see more detail because the lighting is better.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. A psych prof of mine once told me...

That only crazy people dream in color. Wonder if that means anything. LOL
Duckie

[arwalden]

16. So That Means You Voted "VIVID COLOR" right?

:hi:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

29. Yes Indeedy

:hug:
Duckie

[nuxvomica]

17. It means your psych prof only dreamt in black and white

I heard a theory once that whether you dream in color or black and white is determined by how creative your imagination is. That your dreams are actually a series of sensations, emotions and concepts that your conscious mind tries to make sense out of later through imagery and narrative.

[Padraig18]

18. Cecil B. DeMille & Larry Flint WISH their films were as good as my dreams!

Technicolor, SurroundSound, etc... :evilgrin::P

[Nikia]

19. I've always dreamed in color

I remember my mother saying something about most people not dreaming in color when I was maybe 6 or 7 and thinking that was a strange statement since I always dreamed in color. Some dreams are more vivid than others. They are best recollected in detail when I have them right before I wake up and either think about them as I'm showering or tell them to my husband right away. I might be crazy though based on my dreams. I've dreamed dreams where I was someone else a few different times, people of various ages and of both genders although usually my own. Sometimes my feelings are exaggerated in dreams. I've dreamed that I tried to kill myself over troubling events, but not that troubling.

[TXlib]

20. My dreams are too realistic

It's cool when I'm dreaming about flying like Superman (I get that one occasionally... very exhilerating, except I'm usually flying by "swimming" through the air), but I occasionally have bad dreams which end up entirely too vivid and realistic. They leave me waking up and wondering for a while if it was real or not.

[Nikia]

21. I've flown too

I remember having a flying dream when I was 4 years old although I may have that dream before then and have had it a few times since then. I run and then start swimming through the air. The weird thing is that it feels like something that I've never experienced before in real life. I wonder if that's how it really feels in space.

[elfin]

22. Have always dreamed, but only

had the first one in color when I was in college. I was on a glass bottomed boat watching beautiful tropical fish - no plot - but when I woke up, I was so excited that a whole new brain experience had been "announced" that night.

Now mostly in color, but somtimes remember the plot, but cannot remember if in color or not.

[MisterP]

23. color,

but sometimes when I wake up, my brain won't process color for a while; sometimes I can switch it on and off for a few seconds

[mlawson]

24. Color, absolutely. No doubt about it. n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Colour. Scent. Touch.

My dreams are like interactive virtual reality. Rather unsettling sometimes, as I occasionally am unable to tell whether I'm dreaming or not until I know for sure that I'm awake...

[Cosmic_Latte]

27. In color, with a constant

feeling of anxiety and the thought of "Am I really here?" I don't like it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. I dream in technicolor.

Most every night.