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| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5426 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 1 of 26 17 April 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I certainly do! Though most of my dreams are in either English or
Mandarin Chinese (my two native languages -- I was raised bilingual), I have the occasional dream in French and Spanish (the two non-native languages I'm fluent in). I've also noticed that all my nightmares tend to be in Chinese -- like when something's chasing me or someone's insulting me, we're all usually speaking Mandarin. My theory is that I've come to associate negative feelings with Chinese since I often get scolded in that language (ha!). What languages do you dream in, or am I just weird and is this something that only happens to me? :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6079 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 26 17 April 2010 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
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I dream in English and Norwegian, although I can remember a dream in which I had a
conversation with a Japanese woman in (my very limited) Japanese. Hopefully I'll be dreaming in French soon enough! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5426 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 3 of 26 17 April 2010 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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A few nights ago I dreamt that I was riding a motorcycle and trying to find something (can't recall the specifics). I'd
stop at a place where I thought the thing was, only to have someone tell me that it wasn't there and to keep looking. That dream was in Spanish... I'm thinking perhaps the motorcycle bit had to do with the fact that I watched "The Motorcycle Diaries" a while back (a biographical film on Che Guevara)! :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5403 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 4 of 26 17 April 2010 at 9:20pm | IP Logged |
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Unless I'm not dreaming of a scene from my life (which indicates it's a nightmare because I don't usually dream of pleasant things that happen in my life), my dreams are usually mute or in what I think is a sign language or some sort of baby talk with a lot of gesticulation. Even though I remember my dreams quite vividly I never remember what was spoken in them. Usually I communicate with people in my dreams just by looking at them and they "talk" to me in the same manner. I simply understand them without any words being spoken. Are my dreams telepathic?
I do however remember something like replays of speeches from my life inserted in a fantasy dream. It is usually in scenes that resemble something from my real life. These replays however always sound distant and detached. Edited by Delodephius on 17 April 2010 at 9:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 26 17 April 2010 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
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I dream in German a lot. Occasionally I will have a bilingual dream in both German and English, but it rarely occurs.
It's either one or the other. I do remember one dream I had a few weeks ago that was in really rapid Russian, although I couldn't understand it. The reason I knew it was Russian and that it was real was that I recognized a lot of the words (without knowing their meaning), and I also heard forms of the verbs знать and делать. I also heard the word курва twice. Edited by ruskivyetr on 17 April 2010 at 9:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5339 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 6 of 26 18 April 2010 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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I rarely dream (yes rarely).
When I was younger I had some dreams in French and German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bela_lugosi Hexaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 6454 days ago 272 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English, Finnish*, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish Studies: Russian, Estonian, Sámi, Latin | Message 7 of 26 18 April 2010 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
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I often dream in Finnish, English and Italian, I guess because they are the languages I use (almost) daily. I've also had dreams in other languages, but I can't even recall when it happened last time.
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| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5471 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 8 of 26 18 April 2010 at 1:47am | IP Logged |
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I mostly dream in Spanish and very occasionally in English. It'll probably be a long while before I start dreaming in any other languages, given that, so far, I only have coherent, long, spontaneous thoughts in my two strong languages.
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