Do you dream in color?

Do most people here mostly dream in color or do you mostly dream in black and white?

Just curious... I seem to have fewer colorful dreams

I almost always dream in color. I don't think I have ever had a dream in black/white. The colors are usually very detailed and play a big part in deciphering the dreams.

I always dream in vivid color with very involved dreams. I used to fly a lot in my dreams, but over the years have been a bit more grounded.

I dream in color. Some people claim that only 5% of people dream in color, but I've always dreamed in color and so has my mom, so I don't really buy that 5% statistic. I've recorded all of my dreams since June 18, 2002 (2839 dreams so far and growing) and colors are often noted. I've gotten rather good at recalling my dreams, averaging around 400 remembered every year.

Do you think creative people dream in color? I certainly do.

A woman client once wrote a book comparing her dream journals with her real life. It was quite interesting, and I tried to get her book published, which I failed to do. But after she died, her brother brought me her manuscript and I still have it. It is fascinating.

Carol

I dream in color. I remember that my Creative Writing professor in college was surprised when I wrote some poems about my dreams, and had conversations taking place between the dreamers. He thought I must have edited the dream, because he had not heard of people talking or hearing words in their dreams. I have learned, over time, to pay close attention to the things people say in my dreams.

The other night, a woman in my dream told me to talk to Cheryl Richardson. I had bought a couple of her books a few months ago, and had begun reading one. I got distracted, and this problem came up, and I had set the book aside. After the dream, I went to the book and opened it to a page that I had bookmarked with a Post-it, and read the very answer to a problem I had been worrying over for several days. Not only that, I re-read the Post-it. I had written one of my favorite quotations, some words about acceptance, written by Paul Tillich: "Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness...sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a wave were saying, 'you are accepted.'" The title of the book was, The Unmistakable Touch of Grace: How to Recognize and Respond to the Spiritual Signposts in Your Life. I've started reading it again. I think I need it.

Ann

Ann, that sounds like a great book. I do find a lot of dreams have deep spiritual meanings.

A few years back, I kept having recurring dreams about falling aeroplanes. I'd be walking along the street and looking up into a clear blue sky (yes the dreams were vividly in color) and then I'd see a passenger airliner gliding peacefully upwards into the sky, shortly after take-off from a nearby airport. Then it'd start to turn in mid-air and then nosedive back into the ground a couple of miles away from where I am. There would be no flames or smoke; just a loud bang and that's about it...

I wasn't really sure what the meanings of those dreams were, and I stopped having them after a while.

So, do you think a color-blind person would dream in color?

I dream in color and very rarely in black and white. The black and white is generally an inset in my dreams -- like you might see in a movie when someone is remembering a time long ago.

P. Gordon Kennedy wrote:

I dream in color. Some people claim that only 5% of people dream in color, but I've always dreamed in color and so has my mom, so I don't really buy that 5% statistic. I've recorded all of my dreams since June 18, 2002 (2839 dreams so far and growing) and colors are often noted. I've gotten rather good at recalling my dreams, averaging around 400 remembered every year.

That's a lot of dreams! I'd be lucky to remember half that number

This is a good example of what I said in that other thread about "credentials". The soundly researched figures and %'s quoted in an acclaimed book written by a credentialled author of dream psychology probably will not satisfy you on the question about dreams in color.
There is more fun in hearing it first hand from a whole array of "real" people whom you know...

Yes and no. B&W is best in movies and in dreams.

Dick said: Yes and no. B&W is best in movies and in dreams.

Dick do you like talkies or subtitles the best. As for me I like talkies and my movies and dreams are always in color.

I dream in colour.... very rare that its black and white.I think it would be same for most people...