Thread: speaking in another language?

Yes I've taught German classes before in dreams. I don't spreche no German.

Well that is strange. Especially the fact that you were still speaking in Gaelic after you woke up.
I have never done that, but I did have one dream in which someone that i knew died, and i went to their tombstone after the funeral, and there was a note on the top of it, and i tried to read it, but it was in some other language.

yes, it was weird, like some part of my subconcious had bled over into reality, sort of like a false awakening...
i can't remember the rest of the dream, unfortunately...

Are you sure it was gaelic? It could be that you heard this language some place and are just mimicking the way it sounds. I talk in tongues when I am bored and because I took german I can mimic its sound. You could have also heard this language and are repeating it word for word. I am a fan of japanese animation and I watch a lot of it in japanese, in dreams some dream characters repeat what was said in the animation regardless if I understand it or not.

yeah man, that has definitely happened to me. Its pretty cool huh.

xenoglossy is a really interesting phenomenon.

It is where a child can speak the language, of his culture in his previous physical body. Extremely rare but very interesting. There is a book on it if anyone wants details pm me or post here. I don't recall personally ever speaking in a different language in a dream. They say however you a truly fluent in a foreign language if you can dream in that language.

Originally posted by sephiroth clock
They say however you a truly fluent in a foreign language if you can dream in that language.

Well, I had one dream where I said something in Russian and when I woke up I realized what I'd said was not what I was thinking. Granted it was non-lucid.

-Amé

Do you remember any of the words? I speak Irish (AKA Gaelic),maybe I can help

Its a strange phenomena. Often the Orientalists and the New Age people would attribute such things to Reincarnation and Past Lives, however, the answer may be less elaborate. I think there are Helper Souls, or Patron Souls out there who, feeling some special closeness or resonance with some dreamers, give them the gift of a sort of memory package -- they plug their Memories and Knowledge into you in order to give you their first hand perspective. And so for awhile, in the dream, you have their knowledge and memories, and, incidentally, their language skills. But it typically dropps off soon after waking.

I spoke some French last night in a dream, or rather discussed a few verbs that some gentlemen were confused about. Upon waking up it occurred to me that I was slightly off in my conjugations, but I got the infinitives right.

I occasionally have dreams in German, but that's probably because I've studied it for 7 years. In a dream I had last year, I started out speaking Russian, but because I know only a little Russian in waking life, I soon ran out of things to say and switched over to German. I don't recall having dreams in a language that I don't actually speak.

Ah, I was going to post my experience with thios, but I forgot.

I had a dream where I was in some kind of foreign country, in the dream, I assumed it was France. I tried to speak French to them (I speak French), but they couldn't understand me, and I couldn't understand them. After I woke up, it occurred to me (for no apparent reason) that they were speaking Flemish, not French.

I was speaking French that I didn't know, and I somehow my mind created Flemish for me. I didn't check, but I doubt any of it was accurate.

Originally posted by Raylin
Ah, I was going to post my experience with thios, but I forgot.

I had a dream where I was in some kind of foreign country, in the dream, I assumed it was France. I tried to speak French to them (I speak French), but they couldn't understand me, and I couldn't understand them. After I woke up, it occurred to me (for no apparent reason) that they were speaking Flemish, not French.

I was speaking French that I didn't know, and I somehow my mind created Flemish for me. I didn't check, but I doubt any of it was accurate.

Radio and then TV has done much to standardize languages. France used to be a patchwork of distinctive patois. The reason the french are so proud of their language is that up until resently only the very proud and the very literate and educated French actually spoke the language. To speak true French was always a mark is distinction. There is a sort of a cute story about one of the Catholic Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in La Salette France in 1848. She appeared to a few shepherd children and began to lament about the coming of God's Wrath because of the sins of the World, but she was speaking French -- the pure French of Paris and the Universities and the Salons. The children didn't have the foggiest notion of what she meant. Through the tears in Her eyes she eventually noticed the discomfiture of the children and goes "Ah Oiu" and goes smoothly into speaking the local patois, flawlessly. What was surprising, was that this was one of the primary reasons the Catholic Church was able to validate this Apparition... because the Patois was so local and because the children were probably very likely to know personally, at least by sight, every single existing speaker of the particular Patois, they decided that this Apparition had to have come down from Heaven, because she couldn't have come from anywhere else and be able to speak the Valley Language. But, after nearly a century of Radio and TV, its no longer a problem.

Perhaps continents should do the same as countries and simply pick a language for Radio and TV. Its amazing how fast people will pick up a language when the interests of their leisure time entertainment depends upon it. Then once a Continent is fluent in one language, one of the primary rallying points for social discord, hate, and polarization disappears.

it would be nice to have a Universal Language. Get 25 Linguists from the best Universities from around the World and get them to create a Universal Language that includes significant elements from every major language or language group. it would be a True World Language, instead of the language imposed by the latest set of conquering pricks and scheming businessmen. Just how easy it would be to learn a designed language built to have no irregularities, no exceptions.

Back in the 20th Century there was a designed language intended to be a Universal Language... I forget what they called it, but I think it was largely designed around Western Language conventions and vocabularies. Today, some effort would have to be made to be inclusive of Asia... Oh wait, that designed language -- is Esperanto. I did a quick Web Search. They say that something more than 3 Million people speak Esperanto, and that it really is easy to learn.

I thought I was the only one. I've spoken languages in the dreaming that make me scratch my head in confusion when I return to the waking world. I’ve also been able to read things there that I’ve never seen here. I remember these things when I wake up and I try to make sense of it all but can’t.

Stupid human brain.

I never really speak. I just sort of manage to get my point across in emotions and non-verbal thoughts and sort of know the point the DC's are trying to make (because they're only creations of my own mind anyway)

I spoke another language in a recent lucid dream, but I spoke it as poorly as I do in real life, and I was only speaking it because the woman I was talking to couldnt speak English.

I guess this could count as another language
Remeber that movie, Contact with Jodie Foster?
Anyway., the entire dream, which was not long, consisted of me communicating with something or someone by way of frequency. My entire vision was light brown and in the middle there were what looked like an heart monitoring machine lines. However to me, in the dream it was a written language. It was as clear as day.
When I woke up I found it facinating. But I concluded that it was just my mind randomly putting words to the lines rather than some sort of message or anything.
I should have written it down. I don't recall the dialog being anything out of this world.