Dreamed in Serbian (I speak only English)

I speak English and my experience with other languages is extremely limited, but last night, just before my dog woke me for a trip outside at 4am, I clearly dreamed of a group of people chanting, "mu ja rak ta da." I wrote it down and went back to bed. Come morning I typed it into Google translator and got, Serbian = "I do it to the cancer..."

Yesterday I took my dog in for a checkup, and obviously thought about the worst of possibilities, but that doesn't explain why I would have dreamed about them in Serbian. To be clear, I don't even know where Serbia is on the map. Any ideas? Any similar experiences? I'd love to hear them and what/if anything came of it.

eddie

Ha ha, very much doubt it's significant. Especially as you're geographically challenged... And was the j a sound like in English, or a y sound? Makes a difference. Maybe some Serbian speaker can help us.
I've many times had dreams of apparently random letters and syllables, and they're either nonsense, or distortions of words in languages I do know. It's just something the brain does, I guess.
So don't worry about the dog, or anything else.

This isnt exactly what you are talking about but its closely related..

Glossolalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have personally witnessed this phenomena many times and experienced it myself. There have been several instances of people I know personally telling of people speaking in a known language they have never learned. Verification is difficult but the instances I have heard of usually entails someone speaking in tongues while someone else who knows whatever foreign language they are speaking is present. It is a very dramatic example of group consciousness in action. Of course, this is in waking life but im sure it can work just as well in dreams.

My opinion on the meaning of the words is that you shouldnt take them too seriously. Think about all the sensory perception in a dream as a metaphor. The mind is using specific sensory information because of its underlying meaning. The immediate surface perception might be interesting, but the deeper you go the more meaningful the experience.

Serbia is a nation in southeastern Europe just south of Hungary and north of Greece. That area of the world is known for its conflicts with the most recent during the late nineties. President Bill Clinton sent troops there along with the UN and NATO forces to establish some kind of peace after then Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic led a massive genocidal "ethnic cleansing" campaign through Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo.

I am fluent in Serbian, English, and German, so allow me to help you out.

The word "mu" doesn't exist in Serbian.
The word "ja" means I, Me, or Myself, but it can also mean "Yes."
The word "rak" means cancer, but it can also mean crab, and lobster.
The word "tada" means "then".

The phrase "mu ja rak ta da" has no actual meaning in Serbian. Google translate is great to use for single words, but for sentences it can be quite unreliable.

Sometimes we shouldn't take our dreams too seriously.

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Originally Posted by Gills

The word "mu" doesn't exist in Serbian.
The word "ja" means I, Me, or Myself, but it can also mean "Yes."

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I believe you can put these two words together "ja mu" - to make "I ...to him/it

At least that's how it works in some other Slavic languages.

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Originally Posted by gab

I believe you can put these two words together "ja mu" - to make "I ...to him/it

At least that's how it works in some other Slavic languages.

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That works for ja mu, but not for mu ja, which is what the OP wrote.

If you are studying foreign languages, your brain WILL process the foreign languages while you are asleep.

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Originally Posted by Mindraker

If you are studying foreign languages, your brain WILL process the foreign languages while you are asleep.

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I believe that is true as well, but the OP isn't studying Serbian.

And again, the sentence has no meaning whatsoever in the Serbian language.

Still couple of unrelated words in different language is quite amazing considering the fact that the Op probably have never heard Serbian :)

mmm not really. Go to google translate and start typing in random one syllable words and you'll be surprised.

I just randomly typed "ul tak net" which came up for the Czech version of "l and net". I never even heard a czech from what I remember.

I also typed "kuro no takoto" cause it sounds Japanese (Never spoke the language myself) and it means "Cyrus was determined".

Now for my favourite one.....I've never ever been to Vietnam, I typed "tong chi mai" and it came back as "The total is only tomorrow" in vietnamese. That would almost sound like a prophecy if it wasn't for the fact that I was just making up sentences based on my week impression of Asian languages.

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Now for my favourite one.....I've never ever been to Vietnam, I typed "tong chi mai" and it came back as "The total is only tomorrow" in vietnamese. That would almost sound like a prophecy if it wasn't for the fact that I was just making up sentences based on my week impression of Asian languages.

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Lol dutchraptor that's awesome. xD I got an idea from this. One should type anything that sounds like something in chinese. And then go to a chinese tattoo artist and get this word/words done in chinese symbols. And then after the tattoo is done. Then one should look it up to see what it means!:D So who starts?? ..This is not off-topic at all right? x) :goodidea: