Women's Colourful Dreams ?

Black Swan

Read awhile back in some magazine, maybe Psychology Today, where it was concluded from some study that women more frequently dream in colour when compared to men? Any merit to this claim? And what do you experience, if female or male?

Me? The best that I can recall, all my dreams are in colour, often vivid.

Comments?



Note: This OP is not being conducted as research for some silly article in some magazine or whatever, but rather just cause we are curious people and having fun.

Demetrius

Always in colour as far as I can remember.

Chinafoot

Yep always in colour.

I remember one dream that was quite possibly the most colourful dream I've ever had. I was some sort of princess and there was a huge banquet hall and everything was amazingly colourful.

Rhyme

Always in colour... the only instances of lack of colour i can recall are when i see relatives ive never known outside of photographs in dreams, i guess my brain doesnt have the information to build up a full colour representation of them.

Ruu_Old

I can't remember any of my dreams being in anything other than colour, faded colour but colour all the same.

Goodshape

"More in black-and-white than in colour".

Tbh, the 'black and white' isn't very apparent. Rather than acutally being monochrome I think it's just the lack of any memorable or important colour (if that makes sense). When you do wake up remembering colours it's only then that you realise it's not always been that way.

Thinking back to the dream I had last night : there were 'normal' enough surroundings and happenings and I could assume it was in colour (certinly don't remember it being grey, black and white) but I can't actually recall if the door was brown or the wall was yellow... it was just a door and a wall. No colour was aparent.

(I honestly don't think that every voter bar me dreams in vivid and memorable colour every night of the week.. although I could be wrong).

iFight

More in colour than black and white, only very occasionally I dream in black & white(that i can remember) or maybe it's just at night.

The Free Man

mine are always vividly colourful, mostly including sky and rolling hills of grass.

projectmayhem

nearly always in colour, and last time i checked i was male

Tar.Aldarion

Always in colour, when I can see in them that is.

ST*

Ruu wrote:

I can't remember any of my dreams being in anything other than colour, faded colour but colour all the same.

^^Exactly.

Tree

vivid colours, some of which cant be achieved inthe real world

meowCat

That's funny.
I never thought that there might be a different way of dreaming but in colour! I thought everyone dreams in colour!!!

kshiel

Never really noticed. I assumed there are in colour maybe not as vibrant as in awaking state. Honestly not sure.

Lust4Life

Always in color as far as I can tell.

OFDM

Shades of brown.

Doomspell

mine tend to be in colour, but theres always the never ending black hole that I'm falling down. Haven't ahd that in a while

Aard

Male, and always in colour. I can't remember ever having a dream that lacked colour.

Metacortex

Female, my dreams are always in colour and vivid. I usually have a good memory for them too

DonkeyStyle \o/

I don't perceive that it's either black and white or colour... for some reason it just doesn't come into it... I certainly don't feel like I'm seeing things in black and white... and I do remember the colours of certain things from my dreams.
But if I were to try and recall the dream visually, I'd say it was in a kind of almost-colour ... very subdued, low-saturation colour... or that colour didn't exist to be missed in the first place.
Hard to remember really

Goodshape

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

I don't perceive that it's either black and white or colour... for some reason it just doesn't come into it... I certainly don't feel like I'm seeing things in black and white... and I do remember the colours of certain things from my dreams.
But if I were to try and recall the dream visually, I'd say it was in a kind of almost-colour ... very subdued, low-saturation colour... or that colour didn't exist to be missed in the first place.
Hard to remember really

That would be my thoughts on it too. I think the poll is flawed, tbh. My dreams certainly don't look like a black and white movie, but they aren't necessarily in colour either.

Lack of colour != black and white.

Aard

This morning I managed to remember my dream (probably cos I was reading this forum last night ) and there was DEFINITELY colour in it. I was in a train and strong colours that were in it were purple and yellow (reminds me of the Luas now that I think of it).

I'd say most dreams ARE in colour, but the person just mightn't remember the colour, or else the colour mightn't be important. It's probably the same with sound; some people mightn't have/remember any sound in their dreams, but others will.