Thread: Dreaming in a foreign language

Originally Posted by Mirror

I usually never dream in other languages but once I had this ridicuolus dream in which I was talking in a non existing language with dream characters using random words like: Bididabo luan ifruni polase and they all made sense to me, like my brain was instantaniously translating what I wanted to say in another extemporary language.

I'm not sure I know how to use this form for a reply. If I have it wrong, somebody please correct me.

This long-ago sequence of my dreams was not being translated. My sense was, the language was native to my spirit. There have been several vignettes. In some of them, I was among a group of perhaps 10 "other" scientists (I'm not a scientist this lifetime), standing before a blackboard, working on a formula. This dream went on night after night. Then one night we had a breakthrough and all of us began jumping up and down, laughing and rejoicing together.

Once, in my waking life, I went into a produce stand in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There stood a white-haired young (perhaps forty-ish) woman -- absolutely beautiful. I knew her name, though we'd never met to my knowledge. "Ruth?" I asked her. She smiled broadly and clearly laughing at me with intimacy and friendship, "Of course I'm Ruth." My face showed my puzzlement. "I know that we know one another, but where do I know you FROM?" She laughed out loud. "I'm one of your students. I attend your class. You are my teacher." Instantly I understood that she was talking about a class on another plane. I would never have used the word "astral" back then, as it carried some anti-Christ connotations for me back then, so I probed, "You're talking about night classes, aren't you? I mean, while we are asleep...?"
"Yes," she replied. Not much else was said. I bought some fruit, she took my money (she worked there), and I left. I came back a couple of days later and asked for her, but no one seemed to know there had ever been a 'Ruth' working there.

The language issue should be simple to be explained. Since the people we are talking to are just projections of yourself, or in other words they are you, it's easy to create new languages and being understood because who is creating and recieving these information is always you wether you are talking to dream characters or they are talking to you. You are always ultimately talking to yourself. Languages are just tools to coomunicate with others in the waking world but in dreamland there is really no need for it. You don't need to speak out what you think to communicate with yourself hence dream characters, same thing when we are awake. You could create words out from nowhere even while awake understanding them, the only difference would be of course that no one would understand a damn of what you're saying and would probably think you are crazy
About the other experience you reported I don't know what to say, it's so beyond ordinary events that only you I think can find an answer to it, always that such answer exists.

Yeah, the "crazy" issue has crossed my mind, but there have been too many unbelievable yet certifiable (lol) events in my life for my to have personal doubts. I have always till now been reticent to share some of my stories. Only a few involve dreams. Now that I am investigating the nature of reality, and having found this website and group of (possibly) like-minded people, I'm ready to ask for help if someone presents as being knowledgeable. I'm hardly gullible, but have found that some herbs, for example, have actually WORKED for us even though the vast majority of claims by herbalists have turned out to be (in my humble opinion) just so much hot air. And so it may be within the world of those who believe in sub-space (Astral Projection, Remote Viewing, different dimensions of existence, or what-have-you.) In the words of my father, I'll eat the meat and leave the bones. I'm ravenous. I have never been out of body by my own efforts to do so. Both my long-ago events were verified by outside sources, which is something I need. (At the wreck site, where I nearly died, I heard things that I reported to my doctor later, and one of his friends who was there verified what I reported. The friend I visited in her home while I was OOB experienced my visit the same way I experienced it.) Anyway, at the risk of sounding loony, I'm hungry to practice AP and learning to do it at will. At present, all my family are having major allergies from the surge of Spring pollen, so it's nearly impossible to go to bed and get comfortable without coughing. Oh, well, all things at the appointed time, eh?

I have taken a 3 year study of Spanish before, but I can't recall one time that it was really incorporated into any of my dreams. Interesting... I imagine the more you study a language and the more proficient you are at it the more likely it is to be incorporated into your dreams. I think since my Spanish is so limited as it is and I don't keep up with it, it's not spoken in my dreams.

So far I have had dreams containing english which is not my natural language, and it was on only one or two rare occasions, and due to the fact that I had a lot of exposure while being in an advanced state of sleep depriviation.

The more interesting thing to me is, I had dreams, in languages, which I do neither speak nor understand. One time I had a complete dream in chinese, I think it was either Taiwanese or Mandarin, maybe even Cantonese, but I doubt that. Another time, there were people speaking korean, of which I I wouldn't be able to tell how it sounds like while awake. Another time I spoke some "Qechua" or "Nahulatl" dialect in a dream, which as far as I researched it boiled down to gibberish, while being awake , like expected. But the korean and chinese sounded very convincing to me. The funny thing is, that I had a whole conversation in chinese for an extended time and I never knew what it was about. Not then, and not after waking up.

Do you think that it would be possible to speak a language you dont know in reality but in a lucid dream fluently