Alicorn comments on Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience - Less Wrong

37 Post author: lukeprog 24 April 2011 08:24PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 25 April 2011 03:07:56PM 3 points [-]

I think I dream in color because I have had several dreams in which color was a plot point, so to speak. However, it doesn't seem implausible to me that I merely become aware of "facts" about dream color in the same way that I might become aware that a walrus is really my sister but not my real sister another sister I only have in the dream and this even though I'm not a walrus.

Comment author: shokwave 25 April 2011 05:07:17PM 1 point [-]

Keep in mind that all facts are going to have some fog precisely because it's in a dream. I definitely have colour in my dreams, and I'm comfortable saying that I always dream in colour, because the fog I have in trying to remember anything from the dream is the same as the fog I have when trying to remember colours.