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renaissancemedi
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 Message 41 of 43
13 October 2013 at 11:36am | IP Logged 
I don't usually dream in a foreign language, but once I saw a child alone, in my dream, and I was trying to communicate with him to find his parents, etc. After I asked in greek, I somehow asked him: kako se zoves? I was reading a serbocroatian teach yoursel at the time, and it popped up in my dream. I still remember it because, in my sleep, I made a great effort to remember the question.
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jeff_lindqvist
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 Message 42 of 43
13 October 2013 at 6:50pm | IP Logged 
Arekkusu wrote:
I very frequently dream in foreign languages. While you sleep, the brain rehashes everything you've done that day; if you studied or spoke foreign languages, you're bound to dream about them.


I haven't experienced this until recently; first time during my Gaeltacht "immersion" in Gleann Cholm Cille in Ireland (daily studies) and second time in Barcelona surrounded by Spanish. I liked that feeling a lot.
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liammcg
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 Message 43 of 43
13 October 2013 at 8:27pm | IP Logged 
I too have only recently experienced this with Irish. I find this odd as I've been
studying the language for so long. It has now become a regular occurrence, but only when
the other people in the dream are those I associate strongly with the language.

For example, I recently had a dream where my grandfather and I had to cut down some trees
that were obscuring the sea view from the kitchen window of our house. I remember asking
him at one point the plural of the word tree in the his local dialect, crainn or
crainnte. I found this dream really nice, as 1) my grandfather died eight years ago and
2) my Irish wasn't good when he was alive so I never spoke it with him. Nice to transcend
reality sometimes isn't it? :)


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