dreaming on a gray scale

i've heard it to be said,
that we dream in black and white,
and whatever form of pensive abstruseness that is,
i fail to concur to it.

i assure myself, and you, dear reader,
that i've seen many vivid hues and brilliant shades
in the small percentage of my brain which fashions illusion.

and, on occasion, i've called myself a lucid dreamer,
and i think that today, i shall call myself such again,
but on separate and infrequent events,
i've found myself under complete constraint
by my dreams.

yet, aside from that, i have reminisced of much sincere color,
some of which being emerald green, sapphire blue,
ruby red, and royal violets...

...and how one man can deduce that another man
dreams on a gray scale,
i'll never figure,
but if i offer my nightly ponderings
to the researchers and the scientists,
then i trust they will
alter this absurd belief.