When I was at school, it became known in the playground as a matter of fact that everybody dreams in black and white. When some of us tried to contradict this by saying that we dreamed in colour, the retort was that we only think we dream in colour because we can't believe that we actually dream in black and white. Our brains fill in the colour later to help us cope with the strangeness of it. In which case, I wondered, how do scientists know that we dream in black and white, if all that they can rely on is people's reports of their dreams? But facts, apparently, were facts, and we were living in a reverse Wizard of Oz world: colour in the real world and black and white in the dream.
Do you dream in black and white?
Do you dream in black and white?
Do you dream in black and white?
When I was at school, it became known in the playground as a matter of fact that everybody dreams in black and white. When some of us tried to contradict this by saying that we dreamed in colour, the retort was that we only think we dream in colour because we can't believe that we actually dream in black and white. Our brains fill in the colour later to help us cope with the strangeness of it. In which case, I wondered, how do scientists know that we dream in black and white, if all that they can rely on is people's reports of their dreams? But facts, apparently, were facts, and we were living in a reverse Wizard of Oz world: colour in the real world and black and white in the dream.