When you dream, what senses can you still use?

I have been told most people can only dream in Black and White with limited awareness of sound. My father is one of those people that rarely dreams and being of the 50's era seems to not have color in his. My mom on the other hand growing up in the 60's does dream in color with full memory and sensations of touching, hearing, smelling, and tasting. I too often can remember vast details of my dreams and have almost complete use of my senses including being able to feel pain. What about you?

Pretty much just like being inside a memory I'm recalling. I don't think it's black and white but I don't notice the color if that makes sense. The color is there but it's irrelevant to remember. There's pain but more of a "I am feeling pain", I remember it and it's like a dampened sensation. Plus, the dreams when I am aware I am dreaming I always seem to recall a fact about "If you die in your dreams, you'll wake up." And so, It's then me jumping off a building and waking up as I land.

My dreams are like a vivid flashback if they aren't some sort of dark Silent Hill nightmare zone. I can feel, smell, see and taste everything that was there. I can even feel injuries that occurred in those moments. Thankfully most of these dreams are me sitting around with people I once associated with and having good times.

I'm happy to hear that more people have vivid experiences. I have seen and heard studies that suggests with the rise in media such as movies and games, people now have more interesting dreams or nightmares than those of my father's generation or older. Doorkey mentioned sleep paralysis which I have experienced on a couple of occasions. It can be terrifying at first waking up not being able to move. Of course the brain naturally tries to keep movement inhabited for protection. Though I have yet to sleepwalk, I experienced a dream where I sat up in bed to start my day only to awaken for real already in position to do so. Like I woke up right as my body was automatically going through the motions of waking up without my conscience telling it to. Freaked me out to feel my body doing things on its own.