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Re: Dreams in other languages?
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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. [/ QUOTE ] You tell Brussels that Flamandes are flamers. |
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Ive dreamt in Portuguese, Spanish, and French on different occasions.
I can speak Portuguese pretty well, spanish above average, and french only a bit. |
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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.
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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? [/ QUOTE ] This is what happens when you fall asleep watching the hot chicks on Telemundo [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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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. |
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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.
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