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I think I used to dream in black and white back when I developed my own film, but I can't remember...
madlights wrote:Do you dream in Black and White or in Color?
sean_mcr wrote:You'd be hard pressed to find a writer or historian that spoke of dreaming in black and white before the advent of photography and film. I am not aware of most of my dreams but I would say that I have grown up in the age of colour images from TV & film and I cant recall having dreamnt in black and white.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... reams.html
genghis45 wrote:Sometimes in color, particularly nightmares......
soenda wrote:genghis45 wrote:Sometimes in color, particularly nightmares......
"What dreams may come?"
soenda wrote:sean_mcr wrote:You'd be hard pressed to find a writer or historian that spoke of dreaming in black and white before the advent of photography and film. I am not aware of most of my dreams but I would say that I have grown up in the age of colour images from TV & film and I cant recall having dreamnt in black and white.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... reams.html
That's an interesting study. It would be fascinating to compare the dreams of people from the developing world who had no exposure to TV or movies as children whatsoever.
There's another context for black/white versus color in dreams---the human eye's rods and cones. Rods are involved only with black/white vision, while cones are responsible for different kinds of color. I bet that there are dream studies using EEGs, which might tell whether both BW and color cells were firing during dreams. Or whether they even fire at all, since dreams might happen entirely within the cerebral cortex and not involve the optic nerves. Because of the role of rapid eye movements in dream sleep, it's hard to predict.
Intriguing to think about, though.
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