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COLOURS EXPERIENCED IN DREAMS
Author(s) -
PADGHAM CHARLES A.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1975.tb01436.x
Subject(s) - chromaticity , achromatic lens , psychology , blues , population , chromatic scale , visual cortex , cortex (anatomy) , optics , art , neuroscience , art history , physics , medicine , environmental health
Colours seen in dreams by six observers were recorded from memory and plotted on a CIE u, v , chromaticity diagram. Only about half the dreams recorded contained colour, and in those in which colour appeared the more saturated purples, blues and blue greens were absent. It is suggested that during achromatic dreams the areas of the visual cortex which seem to respond only to colour may be inoperative. The paucity of blue in dreams could be anatomically related to the small population of blue units in the colour areas of the cortex.