Thread: Dreaming in diffrent langauges

Every so often my dream will change to french. That usually only happens if I'm dreaming about work or something (I speak french at work)

I've had this happen, too. I assume you must have a certain level of fluency in the language before you can do this. For example, my Swahili is only passable, but my French is excellent. I have French dreams all the time, but almost never Swahili. I've tried speaking both in lucid dreams. I amaze myself by being a pro at either one when I'm dreaming. I fear I still may be fooling myself, because I can never remember the details after I wake. I think I might just be faking most of it.

Even my waking life thoughts language depends on the the subject I am thinking of. I usually think every day stuff in finnish, but think in english for some of the stuff I have only discussed in english online. So my dreams follow that pattern.

In my dreams, it changes a lot. It has to do with the person I'm talking etc. For instance, if I'm talking with my family in my dreams, I usually talk turkish, but with friends english/german. Some even talk french, which I hardly unterstand, because I suck in french. So like JussiKala said, it depends all on the subject or the person who you're talking to.

I speak a bit of Irish, and have dreamt in it a bit.

Like robot butler said. I would think that it depends on the fluency that you speak it. If you commonly speak a language it would probably turn up in your dreams more.

I've dreamt in spanish (not fluent but its comprehendable) and also, for some reason, what i think was russian. I wasn't lucid but i could understand and speak it very fluently as if it was my first language.

Note: I have never taken any sort of russian classes, nor even made the slightest attempt to learn it.

A weird thing that I notice sometimes is that sometimes if I'm speaking a foreign language, I can do so MUCH better than in real life. I can read and write french just fine, but I can't really speak it since I can't think in it. In my dreams, I'm very quick, although once I wake up, I realize that while some of it is real french, my brain seems to add random garbage in there too, I guess to fill gaps for words I either dont know, or cant think of quickly.

I normally dream in Russian or English, sometimes I speak Chinese for short periods. Also a lot of other languages show up in my dreams and I can only assume what language it may be, it usually sounds really convincing, although it most probably have no meaning and just sounds like I expect it. German, French, Spanish, Korean and Ukrainian are the most recent ones that I remember.

@ninja9578 Possibly you just invent things, that might sound fitting. Or you might be right with thinking quickly. I remember dreaming about talking to my friends in German and filling a gap with a Spanish word, which would describe a different thing, but sounding similar to the German word at first. After waking up I noticed it made absolutely no sense at all.

@MischiefManaged Maybe you pick up some words on the go and just add them up making random sentences, that might make no sense at all, but using words you know of that language.

It´s interesting how the environment changes the way we think.

One time I had a dream that a Russian, American, German and Japanese were arguing over cheese in their own respective languages, but they could all understand each other. I speak English and German, a little Japanese a and teeny weeny bit of broken Russian, but I could get their meaning clear as day. I think my subconscious was just playing back what Ive heard of those languages and gave me the meanings in English. The morning I had that dream I translated some of the Russian and it turned out it was random babbling with words you'd see in a James Bond movie.