Color Illusion

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I was up late one night watching an old black and white movie called "The Informer" made in 1935. It was late and I started to get tired. I nodded of the sleep briefly and I woke up to seeing the movie in full vivid color, like a modern movie. It stayed full color for over a minute and I could not believe my eyes; then it gradually returned to black and white again. This movie was being taped with my VCR so when it ended I wound it back to where I saw full color, but there was no color at all it was just my mind playing tricks
Does anyone else experience these illusions of color?

Woah, that's trippy man!

They should have found this back when they made those films! Would cause an uproar!

Wish I could try that.

and here I thought I only had the secret recipe to mulling up a tv!

I wish.

Maybe the colors are just caused by the power of the imaganation.

You think you know what colors fit each object, and because your mind is still wakining, it plays tricks, just like i always see things wheni wake up in the morning when i am still drowsy.

i seen an optical allusion on the net before that did that. it must have to do w/ seeing all the colours u EXPECT to see, and then fulling them in.

Perhaps it was a hypnagogic hallucination - a waking dream. You said you fell asleep, maybe you were still asleep. This happens to me occasionally. It can seem frighteningly real. Just the other night I was tossing and turning, and I looked at my alarm clock at one point and it said "00:25". I thought, "oh... I guess it's 12:25 am". It wasn't until I woke up again later that I realized that my clock can't actually read "00:25".

With me after watching a black and white movie or show, it seems that your mind just fills in the missing information (i.e. color) and you forget that it's in black and white. It seems odd, but that's the way it works for me.


-Scott

i am going to try that. i will watch Trailer Park Boys in black and white

If I watch something in black-and-white, my brain always fills in the colour, unless I consciously remind myself that I am watching something in black-and-white. I've never thought to tell anyone, because I thought it happened to everyone. Just like reading. Eventually, I stop seeing the words and I start seeing a movie in my head. That's what it is like to watch black-and-white television.

You could actually be correct. I have hypnagogic hallucinations quite often, and one time I woke up and instead of being in normal colour, my room was overlayed with a rainbow for a few seconds.

The hypnogogic hallucinations probably explain. I get them too albeit they do not last anywhere near as long such as seeing visions of cars driving on a race track or a surfer on a big wave which only last for a few seconds just as I suddenly feel tired and at a point of falling off to sleep. But the visions I get when black and white movies turn to color I only get when I just woken up and last much longer; sometimes over a minute.

http://emuse.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/5850

that's cool, paul

no idea how it happened!

you need to look at this optical illusion, its pretty much what happened with you..

http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.php#

that rocks! so maybe it has something to do with closing your eyes and having those kinda of "colors shining through your eyelids" getting super imposed on the black and white TV screen?

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Hi, that's how it hits me when I wake up after falling to sleep watching a black and white movie and it can last for up to a minute. Maybe this one is the eye over-compensating with complementary colors of the first image.