I watched a movie last night, "What if?" A man enters an alternate reality via an angel. He sees what his life would have been if he had made a different decision. He wakes up out if his experience in a hospital bed. (It is as if the entire experience had been a dream.)
In the movie, he says, "They say only 1 in 200 people dream in color. I guess I'm one of those." A few weeks ago, a Christian woman I know made a similar claim to me, telling me, "My dreams are in color. I am one of the few who dream in color." She explained she learned this information while watching a movie. Truth is, almost everyone I have ever asked dreams in color. It is more rare to dream in black & white. I even have a post about dreams without images. However, dreams without images and dreams in black and white, even cartoon dreams, are very uncommon.
99.9% of dreams are in color. You see real events just like the people who will actually be present, allowing, of course, for personal schemas, expectations, and bias.
After a poll, taken of people reading on the Internet about dreaming, the following results were attained:
| Modality | Number | Percent | | color | 127 | 87.6 | | B&W | 15 | 10.3 | | cartoon | 1 | 0.7 | | audio only | 2 | 1.4 | | |
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