I am one of the nonpsychologist-lurkers on TIPS, otherwise I probably would
not have to ask this question. But here goes:
I seem to remember reading statistics regarding color vs. b/w dreamers that
indictated that there are substantially fewer individuals who dream in
color. Question: Is this true?
I ask because yesterday I polled students in 3 classes (n = 77) whether
their dreams were in color. Results: color = 74, b/w = 2, no idea = 1.
Also, the question occasionally comes up in cocktail party banter and I
don't recall anyone ever saying they were b/w dreamers.
Because of these unscientific results I am beginning to wonder if the
"fewer color dreamers" statistic is just an urban myth of some sort. Or
could it be that the data is based on immediate reporting of dreams and
thus more likely to be accurate, but when asked to generalize from long
term memories people tend to imbue those dream memories with a
"color-bias"? Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Keith
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