I refer to the normal, healthy REM-cycle dreams, not lucid dreaming or drug-induced dreams. Do you usually see color, or sometimes, or not at all?
Is it normal to not see color in dreams at all? Since all our visual experience is in color, and dreams are influenced by our waking-state experiences, not seeing color in dreams sounds odd.
I definitely dream in color. I’ve even almost literally dreamed in technicolor, in a dream set in a cartoon world.
I dream in normal everyday color. I’ve heard that some people dream in B&W, but I’ve never met anyone who admits to it.
Yep, normal color in my dreams. Maybe the only thing that’s normal there!
I have no idea. I’m sure I dream, but rarely remember any specifics, and when I do I forget pretty quickly.
Once as a kid I had a nightmare of my dad trying to hold my hand against the red-hot glowing coils of our stove. (Crazy dream, don’t know where it came from). The coils were absolutely cherry red. It’s the only dream I recall that I can say for sure I dreamt in color. But at least I know I have the capacity to dream in color.
yes, always
It is my belief that dreams are not at all like a movie or video. When watching a movie you are presented with a stream of images and sounds which, just like the real world, is far too much data for your visual system and brain to cope with in real time. Instead your brain directs attention to those aspects it feels are important to make sense of what it is seeing and discards the rest, guessing at the missing bits to fill in any gaps.
In a dream you do not have the full amount of data from which to select the salient stuff but rather just a stream of sensations of what you might experience after the brain has already made that selection. All that exists are the details on which your dream-consciousness has focused itself. As such it cannot really be said that color either exists or does not exist until you find your dream-self asking the question “what color is that?”, at which point the sensation of color will magically occur - unless you are in some weird Charlie Chaplin dream where the absence of color is a specific experience.
I expect that all normally-sighted people will at some time experience color in their dreams. The question becomes one of how important is color to your view of the world which will be reflected in how often your dream-consciousness finds itself inserting the sensation of color into the stream of experiences.
Always in color.
All in color and full stereo sound.
Very realistic at times.
This should have been a poll.
I think this applies to me. I’m not really sure if I’ve ever dreamt in color, at least not a lot of color. On top of that I’m not sure if my memories of my dreams are truly representative of my dreams, I may remember some color in the dream, but I don’t know if the color was there when I was dreaming.
I do indeed dream in colour; funnily enough, I have trouble tasting and smelling things in my dreams, though. In real life, I have a better than average sense of taste and smell. Dreams is weird. 
All my dreams have been in color, except one where I traveled back in time to the late 50s/early 60s, and my brain decided that since all the pictures and video from then were in black and white, reality was as well. 
With maybe the odd minor variation, the physical world is always represented in my dreams as I experience it awake. People are people, dogs are dogs, cars are cars, and always in colour. It’s the situations and events that happen that make me wonder if my late night snack was laced with LSD.
I seem to remember hearing somewhere (sorry, no cite) that some people would dream in black and white because back then, TV/movies were in black and white. Now that most TV shows and movies are in colour, it doesn’t happen as often that people dream in black and white.
Most typically my dreams have a color, live action appearance similar to what I see when I walk around through my life.
I am aware of having had a few dreams over the years where the color was drained away or quite muted, but it’s far from the norm.
About a month ago I had my first ever, and so far only, dream that appeared to be animated. I was hopeful there would be more, but none yet.
I rarely remember if my dreams are in color or not, but sometimes they definitely are. Just last night I had a dream where I was at some bar with really stupid people, and I convinced someone that you were allowed to push any blue colored ball with your finger as many times as you want, as that was a part of the game under some new rules that had just come out. And sure enough I remember some very blue colored billiard balls.
I don’t think I’ve ever had anything other than thoughts in my dreams. My dreams are a lot like listening to a bunch of narrators talking over each other. Like one says “you’re looking at a tree” while a thousand other voices are describing the color of the tree and the trees around it and the man with the fiddle next to me and the music and so on. It’s really disorienting, but I can understand what’s going on. But I definitely don’t see things, or hear them, or feel them, or taste or smell them. I just get a huge layer of thoughts describing sensations, not actually the sensations themselves.
My dreams are in color and sharp detail, and I can’t even fathom them not being so, since the world I experience is that way. Interestingly, however, the most dreary, horrific, primal nightmares I’ve had have been in black and white and even somewhat grainy, as if my animal instincts kicked in even in the visual experience.
I get extremely complex dreams with a storyline so thick I could write a novel with the plot lifted straight out of the dream. Unfortunately, the visuals are mostly graytoned. Color is very rare. Maybe there are so many goings-on in the dream the brain feels color is the least important detail. (Sometimes my dream is so crazily out-of-this-world I can barely begin to describe it.)
My question in the OP was motivated by the fact that I have suffered chronic low-grade depression for a long time now. I still do. Maybe dreams reflect that by being excessively monochrome?