She Dreams in Red

SOLAT319 · January 2009

So, let's open this up again.
What do you remember as the meaning of this line was said to be?
This chick, who blogs on examiner.com blubbered something about the above mentioned line referring to "colorful dreams of passion" which is completely ridiculuous to me. I've never heard that before. As far as I remember, this was referring to a blood-shot eye after getting punched in the face.

wolfbear · January 2009

I just always took it to mean vivid, which could include 'passion' in one sense, but not how it's listed/or comes off there. More like nightmares!

SOLAT319 · January 2009

Have you seen that chick's blog? She's under the false impression that transferring sentences from wikipedia into the space provided to you by a website means you're blogging.

Stereotype · January 2009

I'm not a native speaker of English but I've come across "dreaming in red" many times...Isn't it a phrase?
I think that it means having envisions about someone. You have somehow "false" believes, everything seems better than it is...It could be in sleep but it could be a daydream also...

It's funny how my mind almost always finds an explanation for something... sometimes even words I've never heard before..It just works very intolerable - everything new is associated and linked with something already known..Maybe that's why people are generally afraid of everything that is different and everything they can't understand...and only here and then can come up with something completely new...Ok..Off I go ...sorry..

Lizard · January 2009

I always envisioned "in red" as being enraged--pissed off that she is stuck in her situation...... :evil:

SOLAT319 · January 2009

Lizard wrote:

I always envisioned "in red" as being enraged--pissed off that she is stuck in her situation...... :evil:

as in "seeing red" maybe? that's actually a good point.

cool, I am enjoying this discussion

so-much-clearer · January 2009

I'm not sure what it means, but I have a friend who really hates those two lines... "Dreams in color, dreams in red? Isn't that redundant?"

I take it to mean sometimes she has vivid, optimistic, dreams and sometimes nightmares.

justam · January 2009

I think it means her life is drab and colorless, but her dreams are vivid and full of passion. Her dreams are more interesting than her day to day life. Maybe there's anger, maybe there's excitement, maybe there are visions of something better?

You can imagine all those things from that short phrase.

idreaminred · January 2009

I always took it to mean desperation. Red often signals distress.

idreaminred · January 2009

By the way...It has been a long time since I logged in here, and I totally forgot what my 'handle was'
LOL!

stevehomeair · February 2009

EVIL hides in the colors RED BLACK and SILVER......she is a he and he's pissed his lady didn't call and staggered in at 4 a.m. saying Jeremy got a flat tire? AND he beleived her......

justam · February 2009

stevehomeair wrote:

EVIL hides in the colors RED BLACK and SILVER......she is a he and he's pissed his lady didn't call and staggered in at 4 a.m. saying Jeremy got a flat tire? AND he beleived her......

In Asia RED is a good and lucky color, not evil. That's why they use it for holidays.

P.S. I don't know why I bother to argue with crazy people. :shock:

akire · February 2009

Just testing... I'm a rookie!

Fifthelement · February 2009

justam wrote:

I think it means her life is drab and colorless, but her dreams are vivid and full of passion. Her dreams are more interesting than her day to day life. Maybe there's anger, maybe there's excitement, maybe there are visions of something better?

You can imagine all those things from that short phrase.

This is what I always interpreted those lines to mean

mfc2006 · February 2009

i read somewhere once that those that dream in color are more ambitious & creative. so if she dreams in color, she has thoughts of a better life, but she can't find a betterman. that's how i've always interpreted that line.

lowenan · February 2009

I always thought of it as related to blood.

Dreams in color (which could be anything, even the best of dreams, but she...)
dreams in red (dreams of something bad, dreams of how she gets beaten)

Plankton · February 2009

I'd agree with those saying that she's dreaming of a better life, the life of colour, but I think the added 'in red' is suggesting unrest. She's not completely escaping her troubles here, but still feeling ... I'd say anger, stress, shame, violence (physically trapped herself).

lorilei · February 2009

i've never taken from it that she gets beaten, to me the line always meant that she dreams (in color) of better things, wants more out of life, but then she just decides to stay because she knows that even if she wants more, she can't find a betterman for her.

SOLAT319 · February 2009

lorilei wrote:

i've never taken from it that she gets beaten, to me the line always meant that she dreams (in color) of better things, wants more out of life, but then she just decides to stay because she knows that even if she wants more, she can't find a betterman for her.

Really? I don't think it's about not being able to find a better man. I think it's about not having the courage to get out of that relationship. I just don't get that "red" being about anything positive.

Elbereth84 · February 2009

Maybe my thoughts are too simple ... but for me the colour red always means "love".

Her everyday life and her relationship are "grey" = sad, bleak, boring. But when she dreams she dreams in "red" = She remembers the good old times, when she was in love with this man. She wishes she could turn back time, but she can't.

Lizard · February 2009

I figured it out and we are ALL wrong!!

see my sig!!!
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