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Well, yes. People thought they dreamed in color until they got a reference class for imagery of not-fully-experienced unusual events - film and TV - which was in black and white. When film and TV became color, dreams became color again too.
Color vision goes away in dim light, which was readily available before photography.
Er, yeah, but there's no reason people would use dim light as a reference point for their dreams.
When you're trying to remember your dreams, you come up with a bunch of half-recalled images from a short narrative of unusual happenings that has little to do with your everyday life. You parse that as a movie and apply movie conventions to it.
Do you dream in 3D? Your kids will.
I hate 3-D movies. I like going to the movies with my one-eyed friend specifically to avoid the tussle over whether we're going to see it in 3-D or not.
(I would say I "dream in 3-D" in the same way that I "dream in color": often events happen in my dreams which depend on their taking place in a three-dimensional space, and I think I perceive that.)