A conversation with the Bunnie, over IM
This discussion over IM was prompted by Engadget, and was filmed in front of a live studio audience. This post has been edited for content, and to try make it read like an episode of Mary Tyler Moore.
jingoro 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.
alice_bunnie Wow, interesting.
jingoro The research suggests that exposure to media between the ages of three and ten 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.
alice_bunnie LOL!
jingoro Our kids dreams will be PlayStation 2 games.
alice_bunnie What did the people who were raised before TV dream in?
jingoro Transistor Radio.
alice_bunnie Sound only!
jingoro And before that, a dream was a single still photograph.
alice_bunnie And people never dreamed before photography?
jingoro Oh no... the neanderthals dreamed in cave paintings. Dreams have been around forever.
alice_bunnie LOL!