This is an interesting article. Have there been any other (perhaps more conclusive) experiments to test this hypothesis?
Out of curiosity, I wonder how people who weren't exposed to media at all (at least during early childhood) would dream. Would their dreams reconstruct the vivid colors of everyday life? Would they have very visual dreams at all? This is also interesting, because not all dreams are vividly detailed. I know that when I dream, I rarely see faces or such details. And then, I honestly cannot recall whether or not I dream in color.
One thing I have always wondered is if and how dreams can be monitored on a neurological level. I feel that it could be argued that how we recount or remember our dreams is extremely subjective and there is room for error in what we recall. I may be thinking that I am dreaming in black and white or color but it may not be the case. I am curious as to how such experiments measure the margin of error in what the subjects remember of their dreams.
How were the questionnaires and the verbal interactions structured? Were the experimenters cuing a certain response?
They should probably have a control group. Why didn't they set up interviews with those unexposed to the media? Do they dream in color?
3D dreams? All of my dreams are as real as my waking life, impossible for me to differentiate (except when I awake relieved, as in the case of a nightmare.
Do we dream in first person or are we apt to visualize ourselves doing X?
This is a very interesting topic and one that I previously had not even given thought to. I can not recall ever dreaming in grayscale, though I believe that I usually dream in color.
I'm not exactly sure how this would be conducted but I wonder if there would be any difference in the brain scans of a person dreaming in color versus a person dreaming in grayscale.
Along with the other who have already posed this question, I do wonder if people not exposed to media would dream only dream in color.
This topic also brings up more questions about sleep and our perception of dreams. What about those who do not dream or can not remember dreaming? If we do dream in grayscale, is it really because of TV and film? Or are there other things at play in the visual representation of the world we encounter that would make us dream in grayscale. I wonder if artists who use a grayscale pallet dream in those tones or if they only dream in color?
This is an interesting article. Have there been any other (perhaps more conclusive) experiments to test this hypothesis?
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity, I wonder how people who weren't exposed to media at all (at least during early childhood) would dream. Would their dreams reconstruct the vivid colors of everyday life? Would they have very visual dreams at all? This is also interesting, because not all dreams are vividly detailed. I know that when I dream, I rarely see faces or such details. And then, I honestly cannot recall whether or not I dream in color.
One thing I have always wondered is if and how dreams can be monitored on a neurological level. I feel that it could be argued that how we recount or remember our dreams is extremely subjective and there is room for error in what we recall. I may be thinking that I am dreaming in black and white or color but it may not be the case. I am curious as to how such experiments measure the margin of error in what the subjects remember of their dreams.
ReplyDeleteHow were the questionnaires and the verbal interactions structured?
ReplyDeleteWere the experimenters cuing a certain response?
They should probably have a control group. Why didn't they set up
interviews with those unexposed to the media? Do they dream in color?
3D dreams? All of my dreams are as real as my waking life, impossible
for me to differentiate (except when I awake relieved, as in the case
of a nightmare.
Do we dream in first person or are we apt to visualize ourselves doing X?
This is a very interesting topic and one that I previously had not even given thought to. I can not recall ever dreaming in grayscale, though I believe that I usually dream in color.
ReplyDeleteI'm not exactly sure how this would be conducted but I wonder if there would be any difference in the brain scans of a person dreaming in color versus a person dreaming in grayscale.
Along with the other who have already posed this question, I do wonder if people not exposed to media would dream only dream in color.
This topic also brings up more questions about sleep and our perception of dreams. What about those who do not dream or can not remember dreaming? If we do dream in grayscale, is it really because of TV and film? Or are there other things at play in the visual representation of the world we encounter that would make us dream in grayscale. I wonder if artists who use a grayscale pallet dream in those tones or if they only dream in color?