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What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby Petrichor » 10 Dec 2011, 06:44

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.)
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby ironlady » 10 Dec 2011, 07:21

I seem to dream in whatever language is handy at the moment.
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby Mucha Man » 10 Dec 2011, 12:28

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


What exactly does that mean? :lol:
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby Chris » 10 Dec 2011, 14:16

Petrichor wrote: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.
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby TainanCowboy » 10 Dec 2011, 16:00

In my dreams the screaming makes it hard to tell...but the voices in my head are usually in english or spanish... :ohreally:
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby Dragonbones » 10 Dec 2011, 16:32

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


Yeah, that about sums it up for me too.
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby Jaboney » 10 Dec 2011, 16:37

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.
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby Belgian Pie » 10 Dec 2011, 16:41

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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby Petrichor » 10 Dec 2011, 17:41

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!
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Re: What Language is in your Dreams?

Postby antarcticbeech » 10 Dec 2011, 17:48

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