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From Chris Freer, Lagos, Portugal

I have been an “epic dreamer” all my life. As an engineer, designer and artist, I put this down to having an active and creative mind. I often wake up exhausted after a technicolour, real-time, physical dream, and I have trained myself to remember the details, much to my partner’s interest. She has one occasional repetitive dream in black and white and sleeps like the proverbial log (30 May, p 7).

We often play a game with our dinner guests where we ask them whether they dream in colour or in black and white, or even dream at all. It’s interesting how often the answers relate to the personality of the individual, in terms of their lifestyle and occupation.

I mostly enjoy my “journeys” and consider them a positive part of my creative working life. I have always been able to visualise construction problems in colour, motion and three dimensions well ahead of committing a project to paper. It is an asset I would hate to have “cured” by a psychologist.