Generation raised with black and white TV dreams in monochrome
By Nilay Patel 
posted October 22nd 2008 8:13AM
posted October 22nd 2008 8:13AM
This one's pretty wild -- recent research in the UK finds that people who grew up in the era of black and white media dream in monochrome about a quarter of the time, while those of us raised with color TV almost always dream in full-on Technicolor. The research suggests that exposure to media between the ages of three and 10 is when the switch is set, since that's when the ability to dream kicks in -- which means we're suddenly terrified our kids are going to wind up dreaming in heavily-compressed SD stretched to the wrong aspect ratio, buffering endlessly before failing out due to a missing plugin. Here's to the future.[Via Switched]
"which means we're suddenly terrified our kids are going to wind up dreaming in heavily-compressed SD stretched to the wrong aspect ratio, buffering endlessly before failing out due to a missing plugin."
That happened to me last night and how do I fix it? Where's that plugin??
I also Dream ALOT about the New PS3 Socom.....That's another thing they should look at is the correlation of gamers dreams of them actually being a part of the game in their dreams. I know it happens to me after a 12-14 hour frag fest. In pure 1080p.....
Ha! I dream in 1080i most of the time, except if I'm dreaming of the alphabet, then it's 720P
Oh crap.
While I dream in SD, my kids will dream in Widescreen 1080i.
Damn.
At least they won't wake up in cold sweat wondering if their head can run Crysis.
I dream in sepia.
my kid will dream in proper aspect HD, but it will require a set top box to do so. Her're hoping for tru2dream.
I dream in the web safe palette plus the 16 colors reserved for the windoze OS. When it's a really good dream it's 256 colors with adaptive diffusion dithering. I have to run consecutive dreams through DeBabelizer Pro to avoid palette flashes.
Do meme-users dream of crysis-blending soviet overlords?
I dream in black and white sometimes, and I've never had a black and white TV.
There are b&w movies shown though on TV, and even still made sometimes.
Actually, the entire world *was* black and white until around 1938 when portions of it began turning colors.
That is why some movies and photos of the period are colorful and some are not.
It also explains why older people dream in black and white and shades of gray.
But I suppose most of you don't remember those days.
B&W pre-1938? You mean just white surely?
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