The Colour of Dreams

Nearly all of us at some time or another in our lives have had dreams. 

But how many of us can recall if our dreams were in colour or not?

If you are colour blind in real life are you then also colour blind in your dreams?

Does it depend on how vivid the dreams are for the true colours to be seen in them?

What colour are your dreams?

Theory or Fact

Many of the experts on dreams will say that we can only dream in black and white, but for those of us who have experienced the real full colour spectrum in our dreams, we know that their theory is not correct.

Why would our dreams not be in colour when the perception of colour is in our brains anyway? Our optical sensors detect and pass all the colour information to our brains and it is then in our minds that we realize the colour associations.

That same function in our minds is also used to provide us with colour in our dreams. Just close your eyes tightly, wait a few moments and you will start to ‘see’ in your mind’s eye different flashes or spots of colour.

That is happening because you have taken away from the brain the input from your eyes and naturally the brain is adjusting to this change.

After a while you will be able to ‘see’ many more vivid colours and some varying shapes and sizes of coloured objects. This is your mind tuning in to the interior messages in the brain, the same ones that are active when you are dreaming.

Our Brain and Sleep

When we fall asleep, we don’t only close our eyes; our brains will switch off many other things that are not needed while we are sleeping. This is so that we can rest our bodies and our minds, but it also means that our brains are still active and that is when ‘coloured’ dreams are created.

The brain performs the same way as it does when we are awake, but instead of information being provided to it from exterior sources, the brain now receives information from our interior, some would say our soul.

This information is just as complex and colourful as the input that we receive from our exterior sources and mirrors our world in many ways, almost like a parallel universe. It is full of real and surreal events that are sometimes vague and at other times are most vivid.

Colour Blindness and Dreams

Colour blindness is caused by an imperfection of the optical lenses to detect the full colour spectrum and not by any impairment of the brain.

Therefore, if the people who are colour blind do dream and are capable of recalling their ‘coloured’ dreams they will ‘see’ perfectly the correct colour association just the same as anyone else would.

For some people their dreams are for them their real world, because in their dreams they are more actively involved and their dream world is much more vivid and colourful than their ordinary seemingly black and white existence.

Dreaming is a natural part of our sleeping state and provides a release from the limitations of our real world. We can have many adventures, romances, fantasies and other thrilling escapes in our dreams.

So, to all the dreamers of this world, prepare yourselves for the next exciting episode that will be coming soon to a mind near you, in full colour.