Foreign Languages In LDs

[george]

I have been wondering, if you speak at least one foreign language, which you are not able to speak very well, and if you know some people who speak it as their native tongue - then if you dream of that person, how well do they speak the language? For example, if you know a person who speaks French, and your own French is pretty poor, then will the French dream character also speak it poorly? I would test it myself but unfortunately haven't had any lucid dreams in a long time now.. I'm just wondering, if the dream character can speak the language fluently, then it would have some interesting implications. The dream character is created by our own mind, and anything they do originates from us - so if the DC speaks the language fluently, then in theory, the language is stored somewhere in us. More precisely, the memories of the things we have heard being said in that language would be stored. So there might also be ways to reach those memories, or skills, in waking life.. Or if this simply is not the case and the dream characters speak their native tongue similarly to the way we speak their language - meaning that there is no improved memory/skill of the language in us, which we would able to access while dreaming, i would like to know Also, is it possible that a dream character speaks a language that we have not heard before? The implications of this would also be interesting... It would be great if any advanced lucid dreamer could try this out!

[Adam]

I have spoken a foreign language in a dream - not lucid though. I spoke spanish to someone on the phone. I learnt Spanish in college, so used to know it, but cannot speak any of it now. I will add it to my list of tasks to try for mu lucid dreams

[aeron]

I was an exchange student in turkey for a year. when i went over, i knew no turkish at all, and by the end of my stay i was competent enough to hold a limited conversation. In my dreams, often times people would speak turkish. however, as i was never completely fluent, i never really spoke fluently in my dreams. it seemed to me however, that the people in my dreams speaking turkish were quite fluent. I wasn't lucid. So it could simply be that my brain is interpreting a "new" form of turkish, quite different from actual turkish, that i interpret as being completely logical and sound.

[Lunalight]

Hmm...I'd think that Dc's knowledge of the language would be equivalent to your knowledge. I've had dreams in spanish before, but I know very little, and I'm sure it wasn't all 'real' spanish.

[alfy984]

i had a friend who told me he had a dream in latin... he spoke it fluently and other people spoke it to him and he understood it... crazy huh?

[george]

mm.. Has your friend studied latin in school or come in contact with it in some other way? I wonder if anyone has researched this before, would be an interesting topic. Although very difficult to prove anything in such a subjective field as dreaming. I believe we remember pretty much everything that we see, but accessing the memories is difficult. My hypothesis is that we record the language - phrases and words, that we hear, but cannot access those memories under normal circumstances.. Maybe when dreaming we are able to access those memories. On the other hand, I have a friend who mentioned that she sometimes talks in her sleep, and according to her boyfriend it sounds like an unknown language. A mystery Anyone had any success with foreign languages in lucid dreams?