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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 9 of 26 18 April 2010 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Huh... very interesting responses so far. :D Do any of you associate different types of dreams with different
languages, like the way my nightmares are always in Chinese? Now that I come to think of it, my dreams in French are usually sort of... silly and light-hearted. The last French dream I had involved me being in a bathroom with another teenage girl, and we were both painting our nails. :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 10 of 26 18 April 2010 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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All the time.
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 11 of 26 18 April 2010 at 2:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, Often enough it is something very life changing or crazy
The other night, I changed my name and disappeared from the world ending up in Russia. I spoke Russian perfectly, natives didn't even know I was American. Same way with German. I met my favorite rappers (Automatikk and Sido) and was interviewing them on German television. we were cracking jokes and everything. I honestly loved it. Sometimes I have dreams so good that I never want to wake up :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 12 of 26 18 April 2010 at 4:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Sometimes I do, but the vast majority of my dreams are in English. I was really proud of myself a few weeks ago when I spoke Chinese to a Chinese person in a dream, even if I realized a lot of what we said was not correct Chinese after I woke up. Remember: just because they're native speakers in your dream, that doesn't mean their sentences are correct. ;) Edited by Levi on 18 April 2010 at 4:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5553 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 13 of 26 18 April 2010 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
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If I ever dream in Finnish, which is quite uncommon, the dream is bilingual in both that language and my native tongue. I'd love to have a dream entirely in Finnish. I still remember the first time I ever had some Finnish in my dream, waaaay back when I first began learning; dreamt of a fat kid playing with Barbie dolls for some odd reason, and he said SOMETHING (cannot for the life of me remember) in the language.
Honestly, I rarely remember my dreams for more than 24 hours after they happen, so I might have dreamt in Finnish a lot more than I think I have. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dantalian Diglot Senior Member Bouvet Island Joined 5682 days ago 125 posts - 156 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 14 of 26 18 April 2010 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | ||
I guess your Russian dream must have been rather special :))) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 26 18 April 2010 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have never had dreams which were completely in a foreign language because besides a weekend in the Netherlands here and there I am never immersed in foreign countries. What happens from time to time is that I have a dream in German and there is a scene when I speak in one of my active foreign languages or I dream of a class situation where I am the pupil who tries to formulate something for example in Turkish. My dreams can be seen as a mirror of the reality that I always have my German environment and in this context some foreign language usage happens.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 18 April 2010 at 9:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5641 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 16 of 26 18 April 2010 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sometimes I have short dreams or 'scenes' in Dutch. This is obviously because I'm immersed in the language and the people I live with speak Dutch all the time to each other.
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