Thread: Learn foreign language while lucid?

Perhaps one can enhance his or her skills through practicing while lucid. That I can see. Especially since after we sleep a good night's sleep, we retain what we learned from the day before a lot better than when we didn't sleep very well.

I'm currently researching the connection between language acquisition through immersion and language in lucid dreams to see if there's a connection between one's knowledge of a language represented in his or her dreams, specifically lucid dreams, but non-lucid dreams as well.

But from my experience as a language learner, one could not learn a language solely from dreaming. Learning a language takes exposure to the native level language. You start to dream in a foreign language often if you are exposed to it regularly (even if you don't speak it well) I have had a dream in Cantonese because of being exposed to Cantonese on a regular basis (back in high school) even though I didn't know beyond a few words in Cantonese. I dreamed in Cantonese, but I didn't recall what was being said, only that it was in Cantonese. I'm learning Japanese and dream in Japanese several times a week. Sometimes I remember exactly what was being said, sometimes I don't, only what it meant and that it was in Japanese. Sometimes the Japanese is incorrect, sometimes it is correct. I also dream in Japanese Sign Language, another language I'm learning, but less often, since I'm not exposed to it as often.

What would be interesting is if you learned a language while a kid, but forgot how to speak it growing up because of no longer using it, then seeing if you could trigger it somehow while dreaming and re-learn it through dreaming. I heard that learning a language you lost is easier than learning it fresh. It could be somewhere in your brain and you have to re-access it and lucid dreaming perhaps could be part of that.