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 ?

Hmm, I have no idea if I dream in colour or black and white, it's all very vague... I remember plots rather than images.

I always dream in colour, full sound, really vivid, epic dreams.

Me, too. I also feel touch and smell things. It can be quite surreal. I also have lucid dreams at times, I wake up in the dream and I know I'm alseep and dreaming, and I can "direct" the dream. Have had quite a bit of fun at times.

Those who dream in black and white, is it normally dark, nighttime in your dreams?
I wonder if its its something to do with the fact in low light people can only see black and white as the cones that see colour don't work in the dark.

Oh wow I didn't realise you could dream in monochrome, that's fascinating! I definitely dream in colour, the other night I was (stress? dreaming that I was in a school and everyone else was in a lovely purple uniform and I was in a baggy grey t shirt and jeans

I dream in black and white, and they’re silent too.
Always have, I’m now 42. No vision or hearing issues.
They do tend to be night based which I’ve never thought about until now.
Often quite creepy, which may be down to the lack of colour and sound.
DH thinks I’m mad. Equally, I’ve never had the experience of not being sure if something was a dream or real which sounds quite weird to me!
I also have night terrors when stressed and used to sleepwalk, although that’s not happened for a decade or more now.
I’ve always been fascinated by sleep and dreams, I think I must have realised early on that my own experience was not really the norm.

Mostly I dream on colour and occasionally in B&W. What really annoys me is when I dream without my glasses on and everything is fuzzy. I'm extremely short sighted and when I have blurry dreams I just assume I've forgotten my specs!

I dream in black and white with sounds and feelings. Sounds and feelings tend to be much more vivid than what I can see in my dreams.

I can sometimes go back to a dream if I'm woken up in the middle of it and I can also sometimes control my dreams if I realise that I'm dreaming.

I also remember previous dreams in my dreams where in the dream I remember that I've had the same dream before and know what's going to happen but also know I can't change it, it's a bit like having déjà vu in a dream.

I can't see faces in my dreams. I can see their shape perfectly fine but their face is either really out of focus or I just can't look at their face. I can tell who the person is from their clothes/silhouette/voice etc but I can't see their face. Like if I dream about Dh I'll see his silhouette, can see his clothes in detail, hear his voice and feel that I love him (or be mad at him depending on the dream) but I can't see his face clearly. Even in dreams that I can control I can change details of the dream but I can never make myself look at anyone's face or see a face clearly.

I actually don't know if I dream in colour or black and white but I do know that I can wake up then jump back into my dream again

My dreams tend to be night based too now I think about it blackbear. Occasionally it will be twilight in my dreams but I can't think of any dreams that take place during the day.

I've never thought about it before but if I try to visualise something in my head, something I'm not good at anyway, it's in monochrome and not colour. I know what a red triangle looks like but in my mind's eye I just see a black triangle.

I don't know whether I dream in black and white or colour either. For me dreams are more about experiences and feelings, sounds and thoughts rather than pictures. Dreams are vivid and I am always central in the dream not an observer and I have repeat dreams too. Some dreams I can remember and return to, others just sort of evaporate as I wake up.

I dream in colour. I know this because I spend quite a large amount of time in my dream shopping for amazing makeup.

I dream in colour, but I can't read in a dream. When I'm passed something to read it's all gibberish and I normally wake up. Dreams are weird.

Sometimes I dream in b&w but more often in colour, sometimes very vivid colour; there are strong feelings too. Sometimes I have colour dream where everything occurs within a sort of soft focus splat of, say, yellow.

I dream in colour. My dreams are always very vivid and often downright weird and I can taste and smell things in my dreams too. Can be quite unpleasant when I dream I have a mouthful of blood for example

Dreams are so inexplicable and I don't think we ever interpret them correctly, it's emotional, a feeling , we just fill in what we know. Or at least, that is how it was explained in the film Inception. It makes sense if you think about it or how else do sight impaired people or babies in the womb or our pets see what everyone else sees.
I know this makes no sense at all, by the way.

I dream in full colour, with sound. I also can do first person and third person.

Yes, dreams aren't really happening, they are created in retrospect. For example I'm terrible for sleeping in - I used to always end up incorporating the breakfast show of whatever local radio station I was listening to in my dreams as I'd fall back to sleep while trying to wake up. They would introduce a guest and I'd have seen this guest walking towards the presenters even before I knew they were there. Or I'd hear a bang (door slamming, cat breaking something etc) and in my dream I'd have seen something fall and break in order to cause the sound. I used to wonder how that could be, but it's true, we don't actually make the dream up as we go along, we sort of fill in bits retrospectively, and in fact that's how our brains work in general. We don't actually form constant memories all the time, a lot of our life is just filling in what we thought we probably heard/saw/etc.

@Blackbear19 I have a lot of dreams where it’s daylight but still black and white but I can tell it’s not meant to be nighttime in the dream of that makes sense ? I also dream a lot about waking up in the morning and my teeth are all falling out or I have hair coming out my mouth and I keep pulling but it just endlessly keeps coming out. I hate it !

I dream in colour always and sometimes think I can taste things - some dreams are so vivid. I had a dream a few years ago that my husband and I flew to Jamaica on a little plane, it seemed to go on for hours. I woke up and for a few seconds and actually thought ‘have we been to Jamaica?’
We’ve never been btw!