Dreams in other languages?

[deacsoft]

This post in the Psych forum got me to thinking about this stramge dreeam I had not too long ago. I have no memory of what it was about, bot I do remember that the entire dream (I would guess 5-10 minutes in length) was entirely in Spanish. I'm American and speak English. I would not consider myself bi-lingual, but I do know enough Spanish to get me by when on vacation in Mexico and such. Meaning I can have a conversation in Spanish but there are still some words I don't understand. Anyway, it has only happened to me the one time. I found it odd to the point of being comical when I woke up. I have never heard of this happening to anyone else before.
Has anyone else ever had a dream in another language?

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Yes, it is not that uncommon. People can even develop different personalities for different languages. I dream in English sometimes, since I use the language so much, although it is not my mother's tongue.

[Lalit Khajuria]

Yes same here, english is my 4th language, meaning I speak it much worse then some other languages and use it less.
For some reason anyway my poker related dreams, which I have maybe twice a month, are always on english..

[RunDownHouse]

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For some reason anyway my poker related dreams, which I have maybe twice a month, are always on english.

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English only at the tables.

I dream in German more than occasionally.

[jakethebake]

I'm curious about the op's dream. Was the dream limited to the spanish you know? this is very interesting.

[2planka]

I use French at work and have the "take your work home with you" dreams... in French.

One benefit to these dreams is that I speak flawless French in them. At work, our Brussels office personnel take particular pride in pointing out my grammatical errors.

[mslif]

I also dream in french at times as I am fluent in both languages. Depends on what I am dreaming about.

[xadrez]

Ive dreamt in Portuguese, Spanish, and French on different occasions.

I can speak Portuguese pretty well, spanish above average, and french only a bit.

[kerssens]

My spanish prof in college said that she was only comfortable speaking in front of her Costa Rican husband's family after she began having dreams in spanish.

[Pocket Trips]

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This post in the Psych forum got me to thinking about this stramge dreeam I had not too long ago. I have no memory of what it was about, bot I do remember that the entire dream (I would guess 5-10 minutes in length) was entirely in Spanish. I'm American and speak English. I would not consider myself bi-lingual, but I do know enough Spanish to get me by when on vacation in Mexico and such. Meaning I can have a conversation in Spanish but there are still some words I don't understand. Anyway, it has only happened to me the one time. I found it odd to the point of being comical when I woke up. I have never heard of this happening to anyone else before.
Has anyone else ever had a dream in another language?

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This is what happens when you fall asleep watching the hot chicks on Telemundo /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[deacsoft]

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Was the dream limited to the spanish you know?

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As I said I don't really remember much of it. The things I do remember...
1. I was in it.
2. At least 2 of my non-spanish speaking friends were in it.
3. I would estimate that it was 5-10 minutes in length.
4. It was set in a social environment.
5. Everything that was spoken by all of those in the dream was completely in spanish. (I would guss it was only in thew words/phrases/sentences that I know.)
6. When I woke up I laughed really hard about it, spoke a crazy amout of unnesessary Spanish for the next week, and craved margaritas.

[jakethebake]

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Was the dream limited to the spanish you know?

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As I said I don't really remember much of it. The things I do remember...
1. I was in it.
2. At least 2 of my non-spanish speaking friends were in it.
3. I would estimate that it was 5-10 minutes in length.
4. It was set in a social environment.
5. Everything that was spoken by all of those in the dream was completely in spanish. (I would guss it was only in thew words/phrases/sentences that I know.)
6. When I woke up I laughed really hard about it, spoke a crazy amout of unnesessary Spanish for the next week, and craved margaritas.

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Next time try to make sure Salma Hayek is in it.

[Blarg]

German was my first language, and I was speaking full sentences at a year old, but I gradually started forgetting it around grade school. Two years of it in high school didn't help much, yet somehow I can still sometimes understand a bit of conversation. Still, mostly all I've got now is flawless pronunciation from my mother's speaking it with my aunts.

A few times, I've dreamed I was my grandfather back in Germany, just doing ordinary day to day things, walking down the street, buying some bread at a baker, having lunch, etc. I spoke fluent German then, and my dream was full of German speech. Even dreaming, I had a feeling of amazement at how fluent my German was!

I also dreamed I was visiting him as a kid in Germany(which I never have), and we walked around town doing stuff. Again, flawless German in copious amounts.

It was funny, I felt like something was "switched on" in my head and that I really had access to much more of my brain and memory during those dreams; like the knowledge was definitely still there and I had actual full, easy access to it.

[KJS]

When I lived in Thailand and spoke Thai I would sometimes dream in Thai. The feeling upon waking was a vague one though: "I dreamt in Thai last night". Never: "I had a dream where a Thai person told me x, y, z in Thai". But I was not a fluent speaker. Now that I am back in American and speak it very rarely, those dreams have gone away.

KJS

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I use French at work and have the "take your work home with you" dreams... in French.

One benefit to these dreams is that I speak flawless French in them. At work, our Brussels office personnel take particular pride in pointing out my grammatical errors.

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You tell Brussels that Flamandes are flamers.

[DrSavage]

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I dream in German more than occasionally.

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Watch less German porn.