Do most people really dream this way? I'm finding that hard to believe... Anyone here dream in black and white?
i'm just wondering who actually says this. i've never known anyone that dreams in black and white. my psych teacher in high school smiled smugly when i said this, and said: "all you have to go on is your memory of the dream. how do you know that your mind isn't playing tricks on you?" i responded, saying that you could say the same thing about waking life, and he said he didn't understand what i was getting at.
I had one last night and I know specifically I saw my ORANGE stuffed animal rabbit floating above the keyboard. The fact that it was orange proves I don't have black and white dreams. Or maybe I do.. I won't ever know.. But I'm sure if you were good enough at lucid dreaming you could make it black and white? Why couldn't you? Lol. Its true, you can trick your brain into having false memories. Over time your brain actually believes they are true and that, is proof that your brain can play tricks on you in waking life. Same with dreams. Your brain will actually produce a vivid memory of something that never really happened.. Our minds are nothing but tricks lol
Got this from: http://www.dreamdoctor.com/stop-sle...s-and-truths-about-dreams-from-chapter-7.html In the 1950s in Europe and the United States, it suddenly became popular to debate whether people dreamed in color or only in black and white. Some contended that we dream in black and white but remember our dreams in color—that is, we “paint them in” afterward. What is interesting about this debate is not the question itself but rather the time that the question came to be asked. The debate was popular in the late 1950s. Prior to this time, however, in all of the literature that exists that pertains to dreams, the question of color never came up. Freud did not raise it, nor did Jung or any other psychoanalyst of the early twentieth century. If you have never seen a black-and-white world, it would be hard to imagine one—wouldn’t it? The cause for this debate appears to be the widespread diffusion of black-and-white television in the United States and Europe in the 1950s! It is true that people can dream in black and white; for that matter, there is no reason to discredit anyone’s claim to occasionally dreams in black and white—or purple, or Technicolor, or Day-Glo. Much as our brains effortlessly recreate our outside world with all of its vivid colors. so too can they recreate the black and white world we see in films, on television and in photographs. No one hears much about the black and white theory today. Most people have color TV sets. Now the only time we might dream in black and white is after spending long weekends watching old movies on cable.
Good job that was a good read, but I guess if you are dreaming ABOUT a movie thats in black and white sure.. But the people in the 50's probably had more colored dreams anyways because I mean everything we see everyday is in color..
colorblind people probably dream in the way they see the world. so maybe not exactly black and white but some colors are probably missing
You never know though, I mean sometimes in dreams you hear sounds, see things that simply don't exist.. So maybe your brain will connect more with the outside world during dreams.. If it is possible to see colors that don't exist in dreams, then to a color blind person, the color they see would seem magnificent but really they are just imagining what everyone else is seeing?? Does that make sense? Lol I'm not telling you you are wrong because I have no idea, but I truly believe that our minds are not the only thing controlling our dreams..
i have definitely seen qualities of colors in dreams that don't match any of my real experiences. the most intense were the blue dodo bird that burrowed into my throat during a sleep paralysis experience and the blue coyote that bit me in the throat after a short lecture about senseless killing in one of my more intense underwater dreams. i have never seen that kind of blue in the real world.
Hey dude I got a question about sleep paralysis.. I had my first lucid dream two nights ago.. But what happened was I had some really weird dream, and I woke up.. And then I was just so tired that I closed my eyes trying to think of that same dream again and I saw like stars and galaxies on my eye lids.. So I watched them and they were moving.. Then I felt this EXTREME push on me, like I was getting jet propelled through a building.. And it was getting faster and faster and harder and harder.. Then it stopped getting harder and faster and just stayed level.. At that time I couldn't feel my entire body and I SLAMMED into my bed.. I still had this feeling but it was sooo like.. Not there.. But I was in my bed, and I didn't know if I was dreaming or not so I got up and went into the other room, and I saw this orange horse floating above my computer desk in the other room.. So then I knew and I had this panic feeling like shit.. I can't feel my real body what if something happens?? Obviously I should have been excited to lucid dream but I was scared shitless.. I had no reason to be.. Then randomly I went into this old yellow looking house and my sister was yelling at me about being high.. And my reason there was OH SHIT my mom is next too my bed yelling at me because she found my stash.. But I just couldn't wake up.. And then I just woke up too my alarm clock.. But whats weird is before I started dreaming it was only 1AM it was really weird.. But was that feeling I got sleep paralysis??
sounds more like a little taste of astral travel. can be very terrifying. there's usually one or two items/entities in the "dream" that don't fit with everything else. usually of a strange color. some believe these to be real beings, some believe them to be symbols, deeply buried in our subconscious. it's up to you what you take out of it, but remember that you, as a human being, especially if you live right, have power in that world. don't be tricked into believing that you can be harmed, because we are capable of harming ourselves psychologically if we open ourselves up to a high level of fight or flight. just stay calm and figure out for yourself what you want to believe about it, if anything.
during sleep paralysis you will be aware of not being able to move, as well as possibly experiencing intense sounds, vibrations, "hallucinations" of things being in the room with you, etc. some believe that this experience can lead to what is commonly referred to as "etheric" projection, where your spirit travels around in this particular realm, as opposed to "astral," where you actually leave this realm for another. i have made no conclusions about my particular experiences, but i have noticed that they are similar to those of many others.
Hmm, I don't really know what astral projection is.. Would you mind explaining? But if its leaving to go too another real that totally makes sense.. Totally.. First I see galaxies.. That sounds pretty 'astral' And then I go through a vortex only to be in my room? Where I get up from exactly were I was laying? Now I didn't look back at my bed when I got up, but I mean maybe I got up and straight left my body?? I was in the same EXACT everything when I was in MY house. Like everything was in the same place as it was when I went to bed.. I think.. But maybe.. Just maybe.. This seems a little far fetched.. But maybe I went into my sisters dream? When I suddenly changed places and was talking to her? Because I for sure didn't control that.. I just got there some how.. I dunno please don't think I'm weird or anything I don't actually believe everything I'm saying I just really wanna be open about it because it was the most amazing thing when I woke up in the morning knowing that I did it finally..
i can't give you any definitive answers, but i can say that when i experienced what i think was probably etheric projection, there were no hallucinations or dream conversations. i was simply either rising up or bouncing around the room. maybe dreams can sometimes open a door to other dimensions or consciousness. maybe entities from the dimensions come to check us out. what caught my attention about your story was the horse, actually.
I had black and white in one of my dreams! I was trying to get into a club and it was super dark in the hallway where the bouncers were, and it was so dark I was seeing in black and white =S
A few years back a had span of black and white dreams. My girlfriend at the time got all worried and thought I was depressed or some bullshit. I never put much thought into it. Then I went through a phase of just not remembering any of my dreams. Then I went through a phase of dreams that seemed as if I was just watching. Not as if I played any role in them whatsoever. Now they are just wacky as ever. Wierd shit. Indeed.
