To ask if you dream in colour ?

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Just that really . I never knew that people dream in colour , Ive always dreamed in black and white ?!
It was only when my husband happened to bring it up in conversation a few weeks back that I came to understand that it is possible to dream in colour . So....does anyone else dream like me or are you all coloured dreamers and I’m the weird one ?

My sister was born with no vision or light perception. She regularly has dreams and I can't comprehend what they are like for her. But then I can't comprehend what the world is like with no vision from birth fully awake either.

I don’t dream in pictures. It’s hard to describe but it’s more like words, like a narrative or a story. I dream in words. Never pictures, so neither colours not black and white. I don’t think or remember in picture either, it’s all words.

Mine are very vivid and in colour. I didn't know until a few years ago that many people only dream in black and white. I can't imagine it without colour.

Yes BUT it’s often night-time in my dreams. Or the sky is dark, anyway.

Does anybody dream about people that they have never met?

99.9% of my dreams are in black & white but about half a dozen times in my life I have had a very bad nightmare in full colour which really freaks me out.

Until the first time it happened I didn't know people could dream in colour.

I dream in real life - as in it's indistinguishable, except that electronic items (anything with a screen) doesn't work correctly, I've heard this is common in dreams and is used as a way to check whether you're dreaming.

Yes I do dream about made up people just as much as I dream about real people.

I mostly seem to dream about things which could be real, so for example at the moment I keep dreaming that I'm in the car with DH and DC and we're on some really long drive - I assume this is me processing being in lockdown. I dreamt the other night that we stopped at a small convenience type store and the shelves were really bare, they only had spices for sale and this was because of coronavirus affecting the supply chain. The owner of the shop was not a person I have ever met in real life. Then later in the dream I was watching TV and I saw my friend being interviewed, and other people in her street, who weren't people I know IRL.

Yes in colour.

I love dreaming, I often manage semi lucid dreams which are awesome, I don't have complete control but it's more like if I don't like where a dream is going I can go back to an earlier point and change something and then it develops differently as it moves forward.

I'm also rarely me in dreams, I can have epic adventures and sometimes I'm not even a character in the dream it's more like a film or a play. Sometimes I'm multiple characters and switch between them depending on where the story is a bit like in books where chapters follow different people.

I once dreamed in pixels. Giant pixelated bugs... a bit freaky.

I once had the same dream for about 4 nights in a row, it was an ongoing story and every night I picked up from where I'd left. I was a cat in those dreams.

If I have nightmares which is very rare I'm always me. And it always happens when I'm very deeply asleep and have no control.

I'm aware that I'm odd!

Full colour here. I didn’t realise there was any other way. Fascinating really. I’m off to ask Google more about this...

Yes, always.

Wow. I dream in colour.
I also dream as though Im watching myself and am often a boy in my dreams. And I cant run, but I can introduce a ruling beside me that I use to pull myself along faster!

Sorry "railing" like those you have between the path and road.

Oh I also have very lucid dreams. I learned this when I was younger and had horrific nightmares. I just change the dream. I realise I'm dreaming and just take control. It's a bit chaotic because my mind is chaotic but less scary.

yes

Colour here.
My strangest dream ever was circa 8 years ago, my fully clothed baby was crawling off the edge of the bed, I reached a hand out to grab him.
DH screamed as I grabbed his neck, which in turn woke us both up. He was wtf are you doing, I was OMG. The darkness in the room made me twig it was a dream.

Baby was sound asleep in the cot. It seems as vivid in my head as ever.

Colour, unless the scene is actually taking place with moonlight. sound, temperature, touch and pressure and sometime pain, but oddly never texture.
smell and taste occasionally

I’m amazed people dream in black and white. I wonder why that is

@Snugglepumpkin YAY a fellow b&w dreamer ! Thank you!!
@Pika09 I read somewhere (unless it was bull shit) that it’s actually impossible to dream of people you’ve never met , because your brain can’t create an image of something it’s not seen . So even if it’s someone you’ve glimpsed at on a bus , or passed in Aldi (or Waitrose whatever takes your fancy 🤣) then you’ll dream about them even though it’s like you’ve never met them but you have. But your brain can’t physically make a person up . Weird right ?

Colour and very vivid, as if real life.

Find it fascinating that some dream in black and white! Don’t you therefore ‘know’ it’s a dream, and wake?!

Colour and all senses usually.

I do- I had a dream with lots of colour in it the other night.

Dreams are like my second life.

Always colour and even though in my dreams my eyes are still the same I’ve driven cars, very weird.

@Youngatheart00 it’s freaked me out a bit that it isn’t a very common thing to happen! And it’s not like it’s a one off either it’s every night! I definitely can’t distinguish between a dream and reality whereas my husband quite often says ‘did I dream this or did you say ’ etc so he can’t tell between the two whereas I know I’ve had a shit dream but know its not really happened if that makes sense . I’m only 25 too so it’s not like I knew life before coloured tv etc either so that’s not influenced it. Ever so odd!

I think within my dreams, which one of my friends from school told me was weird/impossible! I will think back to previous things and refer to memory etc - sometimes the memory is from real life and sometimes the memory is unique to that dream as in I've imagined an entire past for that persona Occasionally I refer back to a memory of a previous dream, but in the dream I'm not aware that the older dream was a dream too. Sometimes I think "Oh I've dreamt about this before - but it's real now!" I used to have lots of dreams about my house/school catching fire and that was always my thought there.

I usually realise I'm dreaming when I notice something doesn't hurt that should hurt or that I can immediately "re-do" something that's gone wrong.

I can't imagine the dream in third person like watching a movie - I am always in first person, it's indistinguishable from life except that when I wake up and think back to the dream, it's obvious it's a dream because things don't make sense or are inconsistent, or there are just random slips and flashes between parts of it with nothing in between, like the scene changing on TV. For inconsistencies there will be things like I'm dreaming I'm at my mum's house, but it's half her current house and then other rooms in her house are transplanted from my house or my stepmum's house or something. And it's only when I wake up I think ah yeah, of course that couldn't have been real then. It doesn't register as strange when I'm dreaming it, it just seems to be the way the house has always been.

I quite frequently drive cars in my dreams even though I can't drive in real life. I have driven a car (had lessons), so I guess that's why, but I used to dream about having to drive a car in an emergency even before I started learning. Generally the brakes won't work or something so it's not a nice part of the dream usually.