Do you dream in color or black and white?
9A few days ago I was listening to a story on NPR, and they had a guy on who dreamed in black and white.
I took ASL for a bit back in school and heard of folks dreaming in sign language, but for some reason it never really crossed my mind that people who do see color may dream in black and white.
I asked @dalek who does see in color and he said about 1/4 of the time he dreams in black and white. I see in color and almost exclusively dream in color. I think from what I can remember, I only had 1 dream in black and white and half way through it switched to color.
Do you dream in color or black and white?
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Color for sure. Also in two languages.
@galmaegi
Thankfully I don’t dream in the 3 languages I speak daily. I have a hard enough time using them while awake.
Just 2 of them.
@PlacidPenguin I was just talking to @hollboll about this. I dream more in English now, but when I see my family in my dream it’s always in Korean.
@galmaegi @hollboll
This would make for an interesting Psycholinguistics study.
@galmaegi You will laugh. When I lived in The Netherlands I used to dream I was giving myself Dutch lessons - I was both the Dutch teacher and the student, bilingual dream.
@Kidsandliz See? It’s not just me.
Full color and fidelity. Also, I can jump and leap extraordinary distances.
@therealjrn and fly
@Kidsandliz and fly.
@therealjrn i can levitate in mine too.
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/finding-technicolor
@narfcake I have this shirt!
@jqubed
What is that tower? I want that tower!
@f00l
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Regional_Spaceport
Good eye, @narfcake!
@f00l That is the gantry for launchpad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island. I got a tour as part of the Wallops Flight Facility’s open house for their 70th anniversary in 2015. Almost 2 years earlier I watched a Minotaur V launch the LADEE probe to the moon from this very pad. The gaping hole at the base of the tower is the flame trench, so I’d’ve been thoroughly incinerated had I been standing there for the launch!
I’m hoping to watch the Antares booster return to flight from Wallops/MARS in person. The launch is currently scheduled for this Sunday at 8:03 PM EDT, although it could very well be pushed back depending on whether the tracking station in Bermuda took damage from the passing of Hurricane Nicole today. If you’re on the East Coast, you may be able to see the launch. This map shows when you could expect to see the rocket at least 5° above the horizon after it launches:
@jqubed
Have family living near Salisbury, MD.
What do they have to do to see this thing on Sunday?
@f00l It looks like they’re close enough they should be able to just head outside and look to the southeast at launch time. If they want to hear/feel it then they should head down to Chincoteague, just over the border in Virginia on the Eastern Shore. Driving to the island takes you past the edge of the Wallops Flight Facility main base, and the actual island with all the launch facilities is just across the sound from there. There’s an observation area with some bleachers at the Visitor’s Center, but it will fill up fast. That’s about 6 miles from the pad, so definitely close enough to hear. If they want to get closer, the guard’s station leading onto the island is about the closest anyone can get at about 2 miles, but they’ll have to find someplace where a landowner won’t be chasing them away.
There are some things to see in the Visitor’s Center, and Chincoteague and Assateague are neat places to visit if they want to kill time before staking out a viewing location.
@jqubed
Saw your reply and texted some of it off, but forgot to thank you. I do thank you.
@f00l Unfortunately the launch has been delayed to Monday. If I’d checked the internet before I left home (it was on in the morning, but off by the time I left) I could’ve saved myself several hours of driving and the cost of a hotel room. I do however recommend Repeal Bourbon & Burgers in Virginia Beach.
I don’t know. I almost always can’t remember dreams. If I do, they’re only general impressions.
Color. But occasionally monochrome, more often when young.
Little language in my dreams recently for some reason. Unless I’m dreaming when I post in Meh forums.
I usually dream in color. Really vivid stuff. Unfortunately most of the dreams I remember are nightmares. I almost always wake up with a terrible feeling of dread, even if the dream doesn’t seem that bad if I try to describe it to someone.
For example:
I’m in Norway trying to escape aliens. My friends that are with me are dressed up like ninja teddy bears. We are running up the side of the mountain and scaling walls. Eventually we make it into a house, and we hide in the attic, because aliens don’t look there.
@RiotDemon No more video games for you, young lady!
@RiotDemon Aren’t dreams awesome!?! I mean the creative, surreal stuff that you just wouldn’t think of while awake. Not the feeling of dread they can leave, which I totally understand. I have days where I’m in a funk, and I know it’s from the unsettling dream I had the night before.
But still, the wacky stuff the brain comes up with is amazing.
And color for me.
@RiotDemon I want to dream your dreams
@ELUNO well, here’s another one for you then. I had two or three dreams where I had to use a public restroom. The dream either had the public restroom with no doors on the stalls, or no walls at all. Some of them had no paper so I ran through tons of them trying to find paper and trying to find one that was actually private. In one dream the restroom was in the middle of a huge restaurant. There was no walls or anything. The toilet would be next to someone’s table. The people eating either couldn’t see or didn’t care, but I was terrified.
You’d think that just meant it was time for me to wake up and use the bathroom… But according to psychologists, it meant something important, that was private, was about to be shared with a lot of people. It just happened to be around the time that I was getting divorced. I hadn’t really told anyone yet.
@pitamuffin even though they can be quite scary, they’re interesting to me.
I remember one dream where I was on a spaceship trying to get to the bridge so I could take it over before they attacked the earth. The spaceship was almost completely transparent so you could see all these stars and galaxies. Pretty neat.
I don’t know why I remember all these alien dreams, lol.
@RiotDemon It’s been done before:
But seriously, that is interesting. Many dreams sure are manifestations of things on our mind.
@ELUNO OMG. I’d die.
@RiotDemon But it’s so fancy!
@RiotDemon this is what my dreams are like too!
I once dreamed I was surrounded by cats of all kinds and colors. Lots and lots of them.
Then reality hit – it was just laundry day.
Ah, a question that’s interesting, and that I may know a thing or two about. Just in case I get busy and don’t make it back, here’s an amusing little paper.
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/DreamChina.pdf
Please note that it’s photocopied, and that whoever did it could apparently not be troubled to make sure the pages were straight on the copier.
There’s a lot of psychobabble out there on the subject, but the paper above makes the attempt to be methodical. I’ll be back with more (maybe).
Mostly lifelike color. Rarely I’ll have a nightmare that’s only shades of a few colors.
About half the time, really vivid color. The other half, mostly black & white but with some objects in color… of course, that’s only when my dream takes place somewhere dark, because, you know, that’s how we see in the dark.
@katylava
@ELUNO
If only if had been merely bad dreams.
@ELUNO Damn. There goes any chance for happy dreams tonight.
@therealjrn
Perhaps your dreams can take this turn:
@f00l Only if i can get this sound track.
@therealjrn
Here’s a homemade full version, I think.
Home made movie - Dark Side Of The Rainbow
1 hr 49 min
@f00l
@f00l @therealjrn
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/dark-side-of-oz-listening-party
@f00l i never really got it after going back to side one of the album, i believe the 1st two sides
@f00l i really like when the good witch, glenda? is that her name? starts playing the bass line on her wand, at about 23:29
i dream in black and white, but the audio is Atmos 5.2.1, it just isn’t amplified
The real question is do androids dream of electric sheep?
@thismyusername According to one of @kevlar51’s designs, yes:
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/robots-dream-of-electric-sheep-1
@thismyusername
So, do they?
@f00l not sure, ask Jared Leto or Robin Wright… they might know
@thismyusername I’m not sure yet. This is on my reading list, but I haven’t gotten to it yet. Maybe after I finish The Hobbit this week.
@ruouttaurmind
@f00l Not available in Audible format. I may have to break down and actually read a book for the first time in SO many years.
Have you read? Recommended?
@ruouttaurmind
Yes, read. Yes, recommend.
Btw, he’s one of those guys where you kinda just read everything he wrote. I haven’t done that yet, tho
It’s a novella if I remember. Wonder if audible has it inside a collection? Gotta check.
@ruouttaurmind
They renamed the audiobook to Blade Runner, to match the film.
Here it is from audible, unabridged
http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Blade-Runner-Audiobook/B002V9ZFX0/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1476293469&sr=1-1
@f00l I didn’t put the two together. I’ve seen the movie, now must digest the book! Though that combination of movie then book sometimes is unsuccessful. I’m just finishing up The Hobbit, and have to say I found the movies so much more enjoyable.
@ruouttaurmind
The seeds of the Hobbit book came from several places:
First, JRRT eventually wanted to put some recognizable humans into his immense landscape along with all the various Elves and other Immortals, and the Heros. If you go around creating languages and worlds, you kinda want someone to inhabit them.
Second, that he was purportedly bored while grading exams. He came across a blank exam, and spontaneously wrote “in a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.” And the story supposedly grew from there.
Third, that he used his imaginary universe as the wellspring of settings for invented stories to tell his own children when they were quite young.
And so all this turned into “The Hobbit”. A fairly quick tale, written for fairly young kids. And the arch tone of the narrator gets on modern readers’ nerves, tho I think the tone was commonplace for that time.
Tho there is great stuff in the hobbit - particularly the encounter with Gollum, and Bilbo finding his courage, and Beorn, and JRRT’s trick of dangling the threads or more and more untold stories (if there were but time, those tales might yet be told), into every possible setting.
But Peter Jackson just barely filmed the book. Hollywood wanted three films worth of $ and that’s what they got. The films tend to drive people who love the book nuts, but I quite like them - user them as separate properties. “Based on …” rather than “A Filmed Version of …” And I can see why people who saw the films first might go “is that all there is?” when reading the book.
If you separate the films from their source, there is some really good stuff in them that came from PJ, not Tolkien - the expanded screen time with Thranduil and with Bard, for instance.
I think you will find some dissonance between the film of “Bladd Runner” and its literary source, the “Do Androids Dream …”, which was, to me, very good, but nowhere near as evocative as the film. But I saw the film first. And the original story was, if I remember, short and cerebral.
100 years from now I wonder if the films of LOTR and The Hobbit will be taken to be the real thing, since most people may have seen them or clips of them, and the books might be seen as almost medieval writings one must struggle thru in lit class, akin to reading Beowulf? Hope not.
Byw if you weren’t nuts about the book of The Hobbit, and you haven’t read/listened to LOTR, don’t be put off. LOTR was conceived and written for adults, and Inglis’ unabridged audio version is excellent. He even makes the poems and songs and recitations of names come to life.
It is a long experience and it might take a new listener some time to get fully into it.
@f00l Inglis is the same narrator for The Hobbit, so I’ve become accustomed to his style. I must admit I was quite surprised by the number of songs in The Hobbit. At points I wasn’t sure if I was listening to a book or a musical.
I went into this book realizing it would be merely the inspiration for the film. Few articles of Hollywood are anything else. I was, however, pleased to realize most of the great lines of dialog from the movie were directly lifted from the book.
Jackson, del Toro, Fran Walsh and Boyens interpretation of Tolkien’s creation was perhaps an ideal example of taking a good idea and making it better. The arrival of Gandalf and the Dwarves in the beginning, the Mirkwood adventure, the death of Smaug, even the battle of the five armies in the end were brilliantly interpreted into entirely new adventures by the screenwriters. Well done IMHO.
I will preview the LOTR books, though that’s a pretty big commitment to listening. Though not as daunting as the reason I’ve avoided the Song of Ice and Fire series. That series would keep me occupied on my work commute through the remainder of my career! LOL!
@ruouttaurmind
If you do ASOIAF, I think Roy Dotrice is the narrator. And he does an amazing job on the 1st three books. Then the audiobook arm of the publishing house contracted with a new narrator. And I guess that wasn’t satisfactory, because after HBO’s series was huge hit, TRoy Dotrice was hired to re-do back old 4 and 5.
He’s still very good most of the time, but he really blew the voices of some key female characters in 4 and 5, including the voices of Melisandre and Daenerys.
I just grit my teeth and deal with it. Still a great story, tho GRRM seems to have a huge “story out of control” problem. I hope he publishes the next book before we hit 2020
@f00l My only exposure has been on HBO, so I’m looking forward to eventually giving it a shot. As you’ve suggested, the narrator can make all the difference. Good narration can make a ok story very entertaining, or a drag a great story into the depths.
@ruouttaurmind
The best “famous” narration ever might be the Harry Potter series. The “U.K. version” (the original text, with a lot of U.K. specific slang that we might find obscure) was read by Stephen Fry. And it is awesome and great.
The “test of the world version” - with somewhat less U.K. specific slang - was read by a U.K. native narrator who works in NY, Jim Dale. And it is awesome and excellent.
Some ppl prefer one, some the other. I love both of them. JMHO - I find Fry a little better on narrative continuity and story, tho the diff is miniscule - and Dale is astounding with evocative character voices.
Both won tons of awards. My real fav is “whichever one I happen to be listening to”. Weird geographical maps exists by country as to which persons can purchase a digital version read by which narrator. In the US we can only get Jim Dale from audible, for legal reasons. Same with a library and Overdrive here.
In the U.K. They can only purchase the Fry version from audible, or borrow that one from their library using Overdrive.
I got my Fry versions on cd from EBay or from Amazon.co.uk. Nothing stops you from importing them and ripping them yourself.
depends on the mood, but mostly in color
I dream in Meh.com order numbers.
@darksaber99999
/giphy wierd random meaninglessness
I rarely remember my dreams. They’re often strange and disturbing, so I’d just as soon not remember them. Once I saw some tips for having/remembering more dreams, so I tried to do the opposite of the tips and it seemed to work. Now I can only remember a few a year, and usually forget those quite rapidly.
When I do dream, they’re typically in lifelike color.
Once I had a dream where, as it ended, the “camera” moved back and up to the ceiling, like it was on a jib, and credits started to appear, the first few popping on “screen” and then the rest scrolling up from the bottom. When I woke up, it turned out the music that was playing over the credits was coming from my alarm clock.
@jqubed Sometimes I wake up believing my dreams were real. I say things about them and people are confused by the details, then I realize it was a dream
I very rarely remember my dreams. But they are in color when I do.
When I was a kid I had a dream that Jaws from James Bond was chasing me around my neighborhood with a syringe. When he finally got me, I screamed and woke up. My side actually hurt where he stuck me in the dream. I had knocked a thumbtack out of a poster on my wall and rolled over onto it. So either I had a dream that spanned hours in the split second it takes to register pain, or my subconscious could tell the future. Either one is interesting.
I know I’ve seen color in my dreams but never thought to notice if it’s always color or sometimes black and white.
A friend of mine told me he couldn’t read in dreams. Made me try and I found out I could - street signs and stuff like that, not books or anything complicated.
I’ve also tried waking myself up from nightmares. It’s very hard and more terrifying than the actual dream. I’ll usually “wake up” into another dream, think it’s real life, something else terrible happens and freak out that this is real since I’ve “woken myself up.”
No wonder I have trouble sleeping
@looseneck I often go to sleep in my dreams, then wake up and think they were real. I’ve gotten better about it, but it used to be the cause of a lot of arguments since I’d think people did things that happened in my dreams. Now if I’m ever unsure I ask immediately. If it ever happened with someone I didn’t trust I’m not sure what the best way to handle it would be.