Some time in my late 20’s, with a group of colleagues and friends on a bus, I had an epiphany.
The subject of dreams came up. Don’t quite remember how (might have been related to buying some lotto numbers who to tell). I turned to the person next to me and asked what I thought was a very mundane question to which the response should have been the expected yes.
This very simple question was…Do you dream in colour? To say the least I was more than surprised when the person replied .. No! But how could this be? How could anyone NOT dream in colour? I dream in colour nearly all the time. Even though I don’t remember all my dreams.. to me, at that time, it was inconceivable that someone could not have that experience at all.
So a discussion started. I took a survey and it just so happens that on that day most of the people I asked did not report dreaming in colour as a regular experience. Some said they see blurs and shapes, some said black and white, while others reported hardly being able to remember their dreams at all. The talk even extended to persons who knew more than one language and which language they dreamed in (not quite the same but perhaps similar).
Perceptions and experience are more than just you seeing a vase when I see two faces. Some are far more fundamental. It was a lesson in the value of tolerance.
Image: Green flame
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Medium: Digital photography
Copyright: G. C. Gunter
Art is my Language.
http://www.gunterevolutions.com/
The subject of dreams came up. Don’t quite remember how (might have been related to buying some lotto numbers who to tell). I turned to the person next to me and asked what I thought was a very mundane question to which the response should have been the expected yes.
This very simple question was…Do you dream in colour? To say the least I was more than surprised when the person replied .. No! But how could this be? How could anyone NOT dream in colour? I dream in colour nearly all the time. Even though I don’t remember all my dreams.. to me, at that time, it was inconceivable that someone could not have that experience at all.
So a discussion started. I took a survey and it just so happens that on that day most of the people I asked did not report dreaming in colour as a regular experience. Some said they see blurs and shapes, some said black and white, while others reported hardly being able to remember their dreams at all. The talk even extended to persons who knew more than one language and which language they dreamed in (not quite the same but perhaps similar).
Perceptions and experience are more than just you seeing a vase when I see two faces. Some are far more fundamental. It was a lesson in the value of tolerance.
Image: Green flame
Dimensions: N/A
Medium: Digital photography
Copyright: G. C. Gunter
Art is my Language.
http://www.gunterevolutions.com/
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