monochrome dreams

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent

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... Before the advent of black and white
television all the evidence suggests we were dreaming in color.

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