Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Colorful Dreams for the Colorblind?

I know a lot of people are colorblind or partially colorblind. So I thought, is it possible for someone who's never seen a specific color be able to see them in their sleep? The thought of that would make someone who's colorblind to always want to sleep so they can see the world in all its vivid colors. But then I also wondered, how does a person see something in their dream that they've never seen in real life.
Most people are not fully colorblind so they can still see some colors. The colors they see in real life, are the colors they see in their dreams. For example, people with red-green color vision defect sees green and white stripes on the American flag. Since they never saw what the color red looks like, they can't envision what red looks like while dreaming in their sleep. In the following image, if you only see a circle then you are colorblind. However, if you see the special number then you have normal eyesight.
When you became colorblind also pays a role. If you only recently became colorblind and have seen colors in your life, seeing dreams in colors are normal. It must be nice to go a day of going without seeing your favorite color to seeing all the colors in the world while sleeping. 
Melina, Remy. "Do Colorblind People Dream In Color?" LiveScience. TechMedia Network, 28 July 2010. Web. 18 May 2016. http://www.livescience.com/32731-do-colorblind-people-dream-in-color-.html.

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