Thread: Dreaming in first language....

My parents speak a different language than me, and in one dream I was in a country which spoke that language and I talked to this guy and he understood me perfectly. In the real world I usually have to repeat stuff. And I do remember using a word in a wrong way, but the poor bloke didin't even notice :p

hooray for dream characters

I remember having a dream about French class and the teacher asked me a question and when responding I couldn't think of the word for roommate (first of all I speak very little and could never answer fluently, and secondly I have no clue why i would need to know the word for roommate). My one friend kindly told me the word and laughed about how dumb I was. When I woke up I looked up the word for roommate and that wasnt the word he told me and the word that he told me isnt a real french verb. I suppose that DCs are part of your mind and will understand what you tell them. I remember seeing a topic not too long ago about someone who is trilingual and they said they can't remember what language they speak in when they dream, as if its more just ideas being transfered insread of words.

Again, telepathy in dreams

No matter if you say "I hate you ma'am" in a dream. If you actually mean "I love you honey", that's what will be passed on.

sarcasm works greatly in LDs, you wouldn't want to know how much



And for the language stuf... I can speak 3 languages, and I never know in which language I dreamt. Really never.

Yes that is an amazing concept isn't it phobia? Amazing, but incredibly simple. One of my friends who only speaks English was in one of my dreams. I speak spanish with my familly and some of my friends, and one of my dreams, everyone was speaking spanish. I spoke spanish to Laura (the english-only girl) and she understood and responded in english. Interesting. It was just sort of surreal watching her understand what I was saying.

Originally Posted by Kromoh

And for the language stuf... I can speak 3 languages, and I never know in which language I dreamt. Really never.

Ha I speak three (and a half, em) as well, well, only two of them are fluent, but anyway, I always know which one I'm using. In dreams I never speak to someone in a language I wouldn't use with the person in real life. So I would never speak with my parents in English, that sort of thing!

Great topic. I've wondered about this myself in the past so I'm glad to see this being discussed. For some reason, multilingualism has always fascinated me. Maybe because I never learned a second language and because some languages sound so beautiful, almost musical.

So, some of you are aware of actual language being used in dreams. That's how I seem to dream. At least the dream dialogs I recall seem to have occurred under the guise of the spoken tongue. I don't think I've ever recalled dreaming in any language other than English though.

Some of you say you only use the language you'd use when speaking to that person in real life.

Finally, some say that they don't recall using actual words, only thoughts, in a way. I suspect that most dreaming takes place this way. But, when I have dream conversations it usually seems to be in the form of audible, intelligible words. At least that's what I believe. Maybe only the remembered parts were that way. Maybe it's really all "telepathic" but we perceive words in the form of thoughts without stimulation of the audio cortex.

I wonder how wrong that last paragraph is. I also wonder why it seems to be different for different people.

Interesting topic; do carry on.