Thread: speech in LDs

That's fascinating that you don't know what language you speak in. I don't speak anything else well enough to communicate, so I never would have known that.

For me, sometimes there is a lot of communicating without words, but then other times it's more just like real life.

Apart from English, I know 2 other languages fairly well, but not fluently. I always seem to speak English in my dreams. When there's no speech, body language usually plays a big part.

I haven't had enough LDs to tell you about my experiences with language, but your 'telepathy' thing makes sense. If you think about it, DCs are just the models we use everyday to predict how people will react in certain situations. It seems much more likely that the predictions our brain is capable of are more general - emotions and such - than actual specific sentences, unless we spend enough time talking to that particular person to have a more specific model of their speech patterns and behavior.

In dreams, say if you said you could speak..."Gnomish" or something like that, could you just say random words and have people understand what you meant? What I'm trying to say is can you make up languages in dreams?

Hhaha I can remember last night dreaming about casually chatting with two girls at a party.

this was in very meanial boring english actually.

No emotions there. just

"Yalright?"

"Yeah! what sare you doing here?"

"dreaming, you?"

"I'm actually you, turns out you made me up!"

"cool, cool. Wanna go make out?"

In LDs, where the language thing is more prominent than in regular dreams, I've used English only to my recollection. In normal dreaming anything goes, but mostly gibberish goes, or alienspeak - random articulated sounds, symbols in writing that are not a language anyone knows, and telepathy.

Usually there is a strange absence of sound in my dreams, or at least that is how I remember them.

I don't really know haha. I know much of the time I speak spanish in my dreams, and sometimes my DCs speak back in english. I guess it's just a matter of what I spoke more that day, as i live in a heavily hispanic area.

Originally Posted by Truffles

In dreams, say if you said you could speak..."Gnomish" or something like that, could you just say random words and have people understand what you meant? What I'm trying to say is can you make up languages in dreams?

I'm pretty sure that if, for instance you say "f#ck you" in a dream, but actually mean "I love you", the later one is the one valid.

I've had experience with sarcasm in dreams, and it works normally (which means that intention counts more than words, at least to me)

To me, language in dreams has always been clear and memorable, unless written/read. One thing I've noticed is that I usually don't speak in non-lucid dreams, rather the DCs just talk to me, and I don't have to respond for them to be satisfied. Does this mean I'm a good listener? xD

As for other languages... I'm surprised at myself! I've had a handful of bilingual dreams, some in Spanish with some English words, others just in Spanish (though only a few sentences. :/ ). But only a few.

Where telepathy is concerned, for me, this is the rarest of all. Only once do I remember speaking with someone through thought. I was lucid, and it was with an animal.

I've had trouble getting the words out lately. They get stuck in my mouth, and when I'm finally able to talk, I feel like I'm really talking in my sleep.