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B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams
Ant writes "The Telegraph reports that people over 55 who were brought up watching a monochrome TV set are more likely to dream in black and white, even years later. New research suggests that the type of television you watched as a child has a profound effect on the color of your dreams. While almost all under-25s dream in color, many over-55s, all of whom were brought up with B&W sets, often still dream in monochrome. The study, out ot Dundee University, used a small number of subjects under 25 or over 55 and the results suggest that '... there could be a critical period in our childhood when watching films has a big impact on the way dreams are formed ... [B]efore the advent of black and white television all the evidence suggests we were dreaming in color.'"
So this means I am going to dream in 1080i?
Thanks to DRM, your dreams will all be downscaled from that.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
about how the youtube generation will dream...
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I frequently have dreams where I'm reading some modern work, but the book is a huge leather bound volume with clasps and hinges, and the text is in archaic black letter, or hand scribed with illuminated portions. I guess, by the study, this is because of my formative years in the 1540's.
Who is John Cabal?
CALVIN: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
CALVIN'S DAD: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just the world was black and white then.
CALVIN: Really?
CALVIN'S DAD: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
CALVIN: That's really weird.
CALVIN'S DAD: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
CALVIN: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
CALVIN'S DAD: Not necessarily, a lot of great artists were insane.
CALVIN: But ... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
CALVIN'S DAD: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else in the '30s.
CALVIN: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
CALVIN'S DAD: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
(CUT TO: EXT. Tree limb, Calvin talking with Hobbes)
CALVIN: The world is a complicated place, Hobbes.
HOBBES: Whenever it seems that way, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner.
The truth, of course, is that before the 1950s, the world itself was in Black and White.
B&W, NTSC color, and HD. Imagine that and I'm only 43 years old.
I do however still dream of green or amber letters on a black screen.
I dream in color about watching TV in black and white.
I have a Ted Turner cell ® in my brain and I colorized all my old black and white memories.
I think Kagura has the best answer. How do you know it is color, if the images don't come from an eye stalk. I could think of anything and say it is color in my imagination and it would simply have that trait. I could imagine this text is white on blue if I wanted. I think that the experimenters were making the subjects believe in <RED> XUL
I called my grandfather up to ask him about his dreams. He said he mostly dreams in sepia tones.
8-bit graphics! You were spoiled!
My first computers were 1-bit graphics (B&W), and my favorite computer game was NetHack (www.nethack.org) (although I think it was just called Hack back then). My dreams look something like this:
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That's me in the kitchen with my father.
that as you grow older, the color leaches out of your dreams along with hope. Oh, wait, that's just me.
It takes time to get full control of your dream world, but it can be done bit by bit. And if you are the imaginative type, it can be quite rewarding.
You can even play WoW without a monthly fee... playing both sides on one server, without gold farmer spam.
You think that's bad; a few decades before that the world was silent (sometimes having music in the background).
...around 25 years ago and the new revision has more advanced dreaming circuits?
It's interesting that your father is represented as a potion. Some hidden meaning perhaps?