dreams

[snugglekitty]

I've been thinking about dreams.

I read somewhere that only a third of people dream in color. I dream in color, in fact, vivid color is often an important part of my dreams. I have the sense that a disproportionate number of people I know dream in color. Do you dream in color?

Also - have you ever had a dream where you felt like some emotional issue was resolved or at least furthered? I have, on several occaisions. I have had dreams about getting closure with exes, which have made me feel much better about the way things ended, for example. Another way of describing this would be, dreams that have a significant and positive effect on your waking existence.

Comments

[beowabbit]

There’s colour in my dreams if it’s relevant to the dream, but I wouldn’t say that my dreams are “in colour”. But they’re also not not “in colour”. (Similarly, I’ll know what a character looks like in my dream, or hear a snippet of melody, but only if it’s actually relevant to the dream. It’s just as common that I know that there’s a character who has this rôle in the dream and this personal context in the dream, and I’m talking to them, but I don’t have a picture of their face, or that there’s a song in my dream that has a particular association to me, but I don’t dream the words or the melody.) Also, the conversations in my dreams don’t always have words, but sometimes a particular word (which may well be in a language I don’t even speak very well!) will be very prominent, with a particular spelling, pronunciation, or intonation.