My dreams are mostly in colour…or are so hazy they seem to be in one single shade sometimes.
minor hijack: once I had a dream where subtitles appeared. Still wondering what that’s supposed to mean. (No, I wasn’t watching a foreign language flick any time close to dreaming.)
I always dream in full color. It’s just like daily life… As far as I can remember, I’ve never had a B&W dream. I can’t imagine not having a dream in full color. Wouldn’t look right. I’ve also had a dream entirely in German, which was pretty neat. (I speak German, but I’m not even close to fluent).
Jman
What I was trying to say is that you do not observe a dream, rather you generate it. It is not the case that features of a dream are there if only you bother to look, rather that they are there only if you bother to look. That in no way contradicts your experience, it just indicates that colour was part of your experience.
As I said before, I do not believe that people regularly dream in black & white, merely that it did not occur to them (or their dream selves) to notice colour. In such a case colour may be undefined whereas in a true b&w dream colour (or lack of it) would be very much part of the experience.
WRT the OP, if my theory is correct then it would seem reasonable that for people such as visual artists colour would be an important part of their lives and therefore more likely to achieve prominence in their dreams also.
I can only distinctly remember dreaming in black and white once.
It was when I was 10 or so.
I think it was inspired by the Monkees video, “Daily Nightly”.
It was kinda creepy for a 10 year old to watch because they weren’t playing any instruments and Micky had a strange synthesizer thing and Mike was hovering ominously in the background.
I had a dream about the Monkees shorty afterwards that was black and white and VERY frightening.
I don’t remember ever dreaming in black and white, and I don’t think I’m just remembering my dreams in color. I guess it’s possible, but it doesn’t seem likely, for me at least. I have no real anecdotes to prove it, just a gut feeling, I guess.
Sometimes I can read in dreams, and sometimes I can’t. When I can, though, it’s usually just a few words, on a sign or something. I distinctly remember a dream in which I was brushing my teeth, and I looked down at the toothpaste tube. The tube was blank, except for the word “CHARCOAL.” in big block letters. There was even the period at the end – it was so final, almost as if the tube was saying “This is charcoal, buddy. Deal with it.” I woke up wondering why I’d never before noticed that I had been brushing my teeth with charcoal paste all this time.