Anita Bensoussane wrote:Not long ago I read a newspaper article about dreaming which claimed that most people dream in colour nowadays but that, back in the days of black and white television, dreaming in black and white was more common! Must admit I'm very sceptical of that! We don't go around with televisions glued permanently to our heads so, even in the 1950s and 60s, people would still have been seeing the world around them in colour. And dreams have been around a lot longer than television anyway, of course!
Anita
Hmm! I'm very sceptical (or should it be skeptical?) of that.
"A holiday — a mystery — an adventure — and a happy ending for dear old Barney!" said Roger. "What more could anyone want?" "An ice cream," said Snubby promptly. "Who's coming to buy one?"The Rubadub Mystery
I've never been that convinced that we dream in black and white. Why should we, when our every day experiences are all in colour? It seems strange. I feel sure I dream in colour, because sometimes the colours are very vivid
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
Thanks for the link, Ming. It wasn't exactly that article but it was one very like it. Like Robert, I'm sure I dream in colour because I recently had a dream where I was on some kind of Art course and we were being shown how to blend one colour into another to create a brightly-coloured spiral in which the colours blended almost seamlessly. Red, purple, blue, green and yellow featured strongly in that dream. Other dreams I recall featured a field of vivid green with swathes of red and purple flowers, and a carpet patterned in blue and yellow.
Anita
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
I can hardly remember any of my dreams, but I think that I had one or two in colour. Not really sure, though.
"A holiday — a mystery — an adventure — and a happy ending for dear old Barney!" said Roger. "What more could anyone want?" "An ice cream," said Snubby promptly. "Who's coming to buy one?"The Rubadub Mystery
I think we have rather gone off the topic of 'Enid's "cinema" screen technique' to whether our dreams are in colour or not.
Rather interesting though!!
"A holiday — a mystery — an adventure — and a happy ending for dear old Barney!" said Roger. "What more could anyone want?" "An ice cream," said Snubby promptly. "Who's coming to buy one?"The Rubadub Mystery
Okay Phil; as films were in black & white when Enid was writing, I imagine that if she saw her stories unfold on a cinema screen they were definitely be in black and white. Maybe that's why most of Soper's illustrations were in monochrome!
...or maybe her 'dramas' were in black and white and her 'musicals' (Noddy stories?!) were in technicolor. Wonder if her Faraway Tree books were in Cinemascope?!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
Enid's 'cinema screen' black & white? I find that interesting. So she didn't see in colours? Or am I getting hold of the wrong end of the stick?
"A holiday — a mystery — an adventure — and a happy ending for dear old Barney!" said Roger. "What more could anyone want?" "An ice cream," said Snubby promptly. "Who's coming to buy one?"The Rubadub Mystery
Robert Houghton wrote:I always thought real life WAS in black and white until the 1960's anyway?!!
As painted in Enid's books anyway!!
I doubt that, though.
"A holiday — a mystery — an adventure — and a happy ending for dear old Barney!" said Roger. "What more could anyone want?" "An ice cream," said Snubby promptly. "Who's coming to buy one?"The Rubadub Mystery
wish I could! 
It seems strange. I feel sure I dream in colour, because sometimes the colours are very vivid 
