Schwitzgebel, Eric (2001) Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White? [Preprint]

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In the 1950's, dream researchers commonly thought that dreams were predominantly a black-and-white phenomenon, although both earlier and later treatments of dreaming presume or assert that dreams have color. The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of black-and-white film media, and it is likely that the emergence of the view that dreams are black-and-white was connected with this change in media technology. If our opinions about basic features of our dreams can change with changes in technology, it seems to follow that our knowledge of the phenomenology of our own dreams is much less secure than we might at first have thought it to be.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Schwitzgebel, Eric
Keywords:	dream, dreams, dreaming, black and white, black-and-white, phenomenology, self-knowledge, introspection, fiction, history of psychology, media, film, color, experience
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Eric Schwitzgebel
Date Deposited:	09 May 2001
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:10
Item ID:	267
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date:	April 2001
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/267

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