Is your dream black and white or color? One night last winter, Dr. Zhao of Hong Kong University suddenly asked this question. Of course, dreams are colored-I've thought so for many years, and I think everyone's dreams are colored-but everyone agrees that their dreams are black and white. According to related studies, only 20% people say that their dreams are colored, but these studies also say that 80% people actually dream in color. The reason why only a few people remember that dreams are colorful is because most people can't remember the colors of dreams. So far, we don't know why dreams have colors, but some studies try to reveal the answer-of course, this is just a far from successful answer.
Are the scenes we see in our dreams colored or black and white? German sleep expert Michel Schlide concluded that most people's dreams are colored.
Shi Lide believes that people can't determine the color of dreams, because people first pay attention to the plot of dreams and ignore the color of dreams. When color becomes an important part of the plot in a dream, people will recall the color of the dream. Shi Lide also illustrated his point of view with examples. Most art students who deal with colors all day have a stronger sense of color in their dreams.
On the contrary, Schwitzgebel, an American scientist, made the same research report on the color of dreams in the last century. He believes that due to the widespread popularity of black-and-white movies in the 1950s, most people who watch movies see black-and-white colors in their dreams. In this regard, Shi Lide does not agree. Shi Lide believes that the mistake of this American colleague comes from the methodological error in the investigation. He said: "Although people watch black and white TV, at the end of the day, most people still live in a color world."
Researchers don't know whether babies dream. Schleede pointed out that babies dream most intensely during a kind of sleep called REM, which can be seen from their facial expressions when dreaming.
Researchers believe that the color of dreams is related to the media. People used to watch black-and-white TV, so most of them had black-and-white dreams. So, please pay attention to the fans of old movies. Watching too many black and white movies will make your dreams "pale".
Eric Schwitzgebel, an American philosophy professor, recently published an article in the magazine Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, pointing out that the color of dreams will be influenced by the media. Judging from the post-60s +0950 survey, most of the interviewees at that time said that they had never had colorful dreams. It is worth noting that the 1950s was the golden age of black-and-white television, but the survey records before or after that period showed that people's dreams were colorful.
Schwitzgebel thinks that during President Eisenhower's period (~ 1969), the way Americans dream should be no different from other periods. At that time, people were more likely to believe that their dreams were all black and white, because they reflected the artificial dreams around their daily lives-television. Before the twentieth century, people's dreams were often compared with oil paintings. He also said that the influence of the media on our dreams today is no different from that in the 1950s. What we see will affect our dreams. Few people mention the sense of touch in our dreams, so people often twist their hands to make sure they are not dreaming.
Schwiertz Kibel pointed out: "Assuming that the origin of dreams is the same, people now perceive dreams in different ways ... We don't know our own experiences as we think, not only our feelings about dreams, but also our auditory and visual experiences."
Other researchers believe that the uncertainty of dream color is just like a novelist can vividly describe a story without stating the color state, and the color of the scene that emerges in the reader's mind depends on how the reader constructs it. Mark Blagrove, a British psychologist, said: "When people claim to have a black-and-white dream, it may mean that they didn't notice any color."