is it the mother toungue or the language he uses the most in his day to day life???
2006-07-05 04:56:33 · 18 answers · asked by RATHAN S 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
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2006-07-11 08:53:28 · answer #1 · answered by Bogey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am convinced that dreams are a-linguistic, that is, dreamt without
recourse to language. I have two bits of evidence for this.
1. Many people I know, including myself, have purportedly had a
conversation in a dream in a foreign language >using words they don't
know,< for example, discussing politics or some other complex domain.
In these cases, I think people dream the content of the dream, and
dream that they are speaking a foreign language, but don't actually
use the foreign language as part of the dream.
2. Most people who are deaf relate that, when they dream and
communicate with hearing people, they don't use sign (hearing people
don't know sign), they don't read lips and they don't have any
trouble. In short, they simply communicate. Again, these people
dream that they are communicating, and dream the contents of the
communcation, but without recourse to a specific language.
In both cases, we have communication without language during the
dream, and words imposed only later when the dream in remembered.
2006-07-05 05:06:53 · answer #2 · answered by denis m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the depth of the dream.
For most dreams a person's brain would use the language they learned natively but there are deeper dreams that draw from from the collective substrate common to all languages.
2006-07-05 05:19:59 · answer #3 · answered by stephenovinci 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well considering that dreams are your mere thoughts on the days events, possibilities of your life, and the future, then what ever language you know could be used in a dream. It doesn't necessarily have to be a native tongue, it could be a second language or one you are learning. As long as you know it...
2006-07-05 05:07:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the language he uses the most in his day to day life
2006-07-05 05:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by donna w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the language the dreamer can understand. Sometimes I've had dreams where feelings and past live experiences that had to be used to interpret the dream itself.
2006-07-05 05:39:37 · answer #6 · answered by sharebear1967 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am learning Russian and speak bits of Japanese. My partner IS Russian and of course speaks English. When I dream, I tend to dream in English most of the time, and my partner dreams (and talks in his sleep) in Russian...but I suspect in the dreaming category, we're both probably linguistic switch-hitters.
Of course it's possible that we're not dreaming in any language at all, but rather just seeing images that are only interepreted linguistically once we wake up.
2006-07-05 05:05:15 · answer #7 · answered by chipchinka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have vivid dreams, always in color and always in the language I speak, though I did have a person speak to me in Latin once and had no idea what they said.
2006-07-05 05:41:29 · answer #8 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in their mother tongue - languages learned thereafter are superimposed onto the semantic map concurrent with the individuals development. Semantic acquisition is structured onto the existing linguistic system.
2006-07-05 05:03:25 · answer #9 · answered by Iris G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From personal experience we use languages we know. I have dreamt in both english and german at the same time.
2006-07-05 05:02:06 · answer #10 · answered by t_eastman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋