h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I dream in full color, with smell, etc. I have had dreams in the past where I dreamt a full day ie: waking, eating breakfast, showering, getting ready for work, the drive to work, the workday, home and back to sleep at night. It's very realistic, and when I awaken it's hard to differentiate whether I had just had a real day or dreamed it. One time I was dreaming of eating Roast beef with macaroni and cheese. I woke up smelling those items cooking and tasting them. However everyone was asleep and we had gone out to eat that night (not those items), so no cooking smells were in the house.
When I was young I used to dream about things things that would then happen the following day or week. I rarely have nightmares (only when I watch a scarey movie, so I avoid them for that reason) so I normally really look forward to my dreams!

Wow, that sounds really !

I'm wondering whether this depends on how perceptive we are to our senses in real life.
I dream of colour, peoples facial expressions, how I react to what they say and do, and generally of events that I just watch as they go by beyond my control.
Those are the things I focus on in day to day life, so I have to ask out of mounting curiosity:

Are you the kind of perceptive person who takes in most of the details of what goes on around you?

I'm not a particularly sense-driven person, being far happier in the world of ideas when awake. However, when I dream, it's in vivid Technicolor and quite often I dream of fantastic buildings and environments, for some reason. I remember dreaming about one particularly splendid building in huge detail, but could not recreate it by drawing it or even visualise it very well. A case of the suppressed right-hand-side of the brain getting time to play at night, perhaps?

I do graphic design, and must admit to an overdeveloped sense of smell and taste buds. I am a very logical person, and yes all of those senses do effect how I process information. So no surprise that they would be working in my sleep also!

I had a friend as a child/teenager who only dreamed in black and white, and the faces of people were always blank (like someone had erased the face). I really thought that was weird! I havn't kept in touch with her since we were out of college, I don't know if she still dreams that way.

Maybe she didn't pay much attention to people's faces either.

Sometimes I dream of wonderful things that I can't recreate in the morning.
Great songs or very funny jokes, most of the time.

try to write then down in a journal you keep next to your bed if you awaken in the middle of the night... makes for very interesting reading in the am!

Once I had a dream where i ate a cake. It was pink and creamy and really nice. Incidently have you checked out my temple... I'ts new and I must admit I didn't see this chatting place. You wanna link up or something?

ooh, and once I came up with this song in my head and I woke up humming it. And once i could remember a joke and was laughing but when I thought about it it wasnt funny

I usually don't notice the colour of my dreams, but I think they're usually not black and white.
Something I"ve noticed: a lot of the time, people notice they're really adapting to another language when they start dreaming in that language. Well, my dreams normally don't involve any language content at all, not that i can remember. Occasionally, yes, but those are the dreams that really stand out in my mind.

Once I dreamt some really scary stuff that involved someone talking: There was a room with a TV, and a woman was forcing my friends to watch a film. She sat in the back of the room, controlling their minds so that they would watch it (I don't know what it was they were watching, must have been horrible.) Then she would kill them, usually by strangling them. So my friends (despite having been killed by her) told me to go see the film. I did, and at the end, the creepy woman told me "All that never happened. This is not the end." Then she tried to kill me. Apparently she'd been saying that to everyone after they watched the film.

Stay off the cheese late at night, that's my .