Thread: speech in LDs

just something I wanted to bring up

In most lucid dreams of mine I talk to my DCs to check their behaviour. Well, for some reason I realised that (at least with me) speech in the dream is not made of plain words, but mostly of thoughts, emotions, feelings, intuition and all that... Like whole thoughts were being soken, not only words

that really made me wonder if this happens only to me

so, how would you define speech (yours and DC's) in your dreams?


Just a thing... that kind of speaking, with emotions and all is pretty much like telepathy as we think of it. Every mental figure is passed. I don't believe in telepathy, but it is possible in dreams no matter what meh

EDIT: I can speak 3 languages fluently. However, I never know in which language I speak in dreams. When I think about possibilities, every example seems to fit. Does that happen to you?

EDIT2: The idea of the mind's language came to my mind while writing this. Would there be any language somehow natural to the mind? (not completely similar, but alike - using concepts for the same purposes and all) Philologists in this forum, we need to discuss this

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?"

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)