What Language is in your Dreams?

[Petrichor]

I just had a strange experience. Someone spoke Chinese to me in my dream. I did my usual thing of beginning to get the gist of what they were saying just after they realised I couldn't understand them and repeated themselves in English. It made me wonder what other people's experiences have been.
(For those who like to do Freudian interpretations, I dreamed my son had put his glove on a paraffin heater, and when I called to him to tell him to take it off, he used his schoolbag, which then caught fire too. Someone remarked on how few minutes it had taken the bag to catch fire.)

[ironlady]

I seem to dream in whatever language is handy at the moment.

[Mucha Man]

I seem to dream in whatever language is handy at the moment.

What exactly does that mean?

[Chris]

I just had a strange experience. Someone spoke Chinese to me in my dream. I did my usual thing of beginning to get the gist of what they were saying just after they realised I couldn't understand them and repeated themselves in English. It made me wonder what other people's experiences have been.
(For those who like to do Freudian interpretations, I dreamed my son had put his glove on a paraffin heater, and when I called to him to tell him to take it off, he used his schoolbag, which then caught fire too. Someone remarked on how few minutes it had taken the bag to catch fire.)

I've had experiences dreaming in other languages. Usually rudimentary conversations involving a language I'm studying at the time. A couple weeks ago I had a dream that involved a conversation in Indonesian.

[TainanCowboy]

In my dreams the screaming makes it hard to tell...but the voices in my head are usually in english or spanish...

[Dragonbones]

I seem to dream in whatever language is handy at the moment.

Yeah, that about sums it up for me too.

[Jaboney]

While immersed in Japanese awhile back, I had a dream in Japanese. It was both exciting, because hey wow, I got it! and boring as hell because my facility with the language was so constrained: "The cup is on the table. The cup is on the chair. The chair is beside the table..." hardly the most interesting dream ever. But memorable for novelty value all the same.

[Belgian Pie]

Martian ...

[Petrichor]

Thanks. I've never had a foreign language enter my dreams before, even when living in a non-English speaking country. It was really strange!

[antarcticbeech]

French.