Technicolour Dreaming

IN MY MASS COMMUNICATIONS class, we're reading research findings that suggest the type of television watched as a child has a profound effect on the colour of your dreams. All of my under-25 students dream in colour. However, my 80-something mom has monochrome dreams often. Her postcards and wedding albums were in black and white. Research from 1915 through to the 1950s suggested that the vast majority of dreams are in black and white but the tide turned in the sixties, and later results suggested that up to 83 per cent of dreams contain some colour. Eva Murzyn, a psychology student at Dundee University who carried out the study, points out, "What is even more interesting is that before the advent of black and white television all the evidence suggests we were dreaming in colour."

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Richard Alleyne -- " Black and white TV generation have monochrome dreams"

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