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My theory is since your brain never actually "forgets" anything it actually percieves, it's possible that in your dream your brain gave access to enough foreign language grammar that you've heard over the years combined with the vocab you've heard. And made you a fluent Spanish speaker throughout the dream.
Probably because of this topic I overheard some Spanish in my dreams last night and I don't know any Spanish.
I was exercising German grammar last might.
Did you have any trouble speaking? Were the words clear or did they feel...like you were thinking them more than saying them?
Complicated words and thoughts often feel like I'm thinking them in my dream, rather than speaking them.
Did you have any trouble speaking? Were the words clear or did they feel...like you were thinking them more than saying them?
Complicated words and thoughts often feel like I'm thinking them in my dream, rather than speaking them.
A few days ago I awoke with a phrase which, when I googled it, found it to arabic. I am like most English people - lazy when it comes to speaking foreign languages and, although I know a very small amount of French have no knowledge or experience of Arabic. I have no idea where this came from but I have experienced something even more remarkable. A few years ago I woke early and, although still in a bit of a daze, got up to get a drink. When walking to the kitchen, I started to sing a song in an unknown language and completely in tune! This lasted for about 10-15 seconds and completely baffled me immediately afterwards.
I've had a similar experience before in Japanese. I've been studying Japanese kind of half-heatedly for a while because I am obsessed with Japanese culture. In my dream I was talking to a Japanese woman just at random with a very basic conversation about how she was doing and where she was planning to go etc. I do know quite a bit of Japanese consciously so that made up the base of my speech but some of it I just didn't know how to say yet the words came out anyway and she seemed to understand. When I woke up, I translated some of the unknown words that I could remember (I could only remember about 2-3 but I made a sentence out of words I didn't know) and they seemed to make sense for the conversation we were having. I just put it down to the fact that I watch anime pretty much every day so I am exposed to the language a lot and because I read the subtitles, I subconsciously memorize some of the words.
I have had dreams where I will make incoherent noises that "sound" like a language I don't know and have never studied, and some DC who looks like that ethnic group will look like he's understanding me, even though I have no clue what I'm saying.
I've had dreams where I can understand, but not speak a language that I have never studied. I think there may be access to things that we have never known through dreaming. It may be possible to tap into your ancestral knowledge, or if you believe in reincarnation that is another possibility. There was an Austrian (I think) rally driver badly injured, who conversed with hospital staff in fluent English for several days afterwards, even though he only knew a few words, and he reverted to those few words once he fully regained consciousness. I also remember reading about a guy who had a near death experience and came out of it with all sorts of technical knowledge he didn't possess and continued to have dreams that added to the knowledge. The Universe is a complex place.