A red-green dream

[a red-green colour blindness test chart, lifted from Wikipedia at reference 1. Those with normal vision should see the number 74]

A powerful dream at some point last night - Monday-Tuesday - a relative of the monochrome dreams, simple (infantile?) but very powerful, that I associate with the nights following a lengthy general anaesthetic.

A dream of a simple, albeit three dimensional, world organised by great flaps of either a strong green or a strong red. Just the two hues. The flaps were a bit like curtains, giving a more complicated version of the effect you can achieve with flats in the wings of a proscenium arch stage. One was drawn forward to make one's way through the flaps. A bit like a maze. There was a certain amount of flapping, of movement of the flaps. As regards the shape of the flaps, I associate to pointed ovals, points top and bottom.

I must have been coming round quite slowly, because if my eyes were open the red-green world vanished, but when I shut them again, it returned. Not frightening in the way of a nightmare, but disturbing all the same. Somehow, one seemed to be drawn to it and repelled at the same time.

Presumably coming round even more, I remember thinking that if I had a dream like this, I was not red-green colour blind. But now I am not so sure. Perhaps one can hallucinate red-green images inside the brain, without being able to see them outside the brain?

A thin connection to coming round from anaesthetics, in that we had visited PJ's in South Kensington on the Sunday evening. See towards the end of reference 3.

PS 1: Copilot tells me that marquise diamonds come in pointed ovals. But I associate now to rugby balls.

PS 2: big offer from Match this morning. Sadly, I cannot claim to live in New Brockton, AL See reference 4. Maybe these people have a sense of humour?

PS 3:urban scene near Montreal, sent in by a correspondent there: they know how to do winter properly. That said, their weather seems to be oscillating in the same way as ours, albeit in a colder key.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2018/12/dream-fragment.html. Notice of a rather different sort of dream, some years ago - with this report prompting no memory trace.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/01/kensington-business.html.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brockton,_Alabama.