Say your first language is Korean, but you have been speaking mainly English for years...Would your dreams be mixed or would you dream in English?
2007-01-06 01:14:41 · 9 answers · asked by Hahahawk 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
the language you are most familiar with, the one that doesn't require much thinking and mental translation.
i fluently speak four languages but i still dream in my mother tongue because that's the language im most familiar with. i know all the expressions, it's like an automatic language to me.
2007-01-06 01:24:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes dreams can be mixed. I speak 9 languages, but most of the time when I dream in Spanish, even when my primary language is English. The reason: Spanish is the language I have been speaking for the past 6 years, and seldom ever I get the chance to speak any of the other languages unless I have a meeting with my volunteers in other countries.
Most of the time your dreams would be in the language you use most, but you may also dream in other languages.
2007-01-06 01:28:43 · answer #2 · answered by David G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, this might not be exactly like you're questions' criteria, but I speak English. It's my first language. But, I have been learning French since the seventh grade (I'm currently a junior in high school) and speak a little Japanese as well. I have had dreams in all three before. Usually, when I start a dream, it will begin and end in one language, never really mixing. It's kind of fun to wake up and think "Woah, I just had a dream in a foreign language and understood it!" :D
2007-01-06 01:44:30 · answer #3 · answered by Pyrai 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question!
I wish I could give an answer from experience, but instead I'll have to give it second-hand from someone I spoke with on this.
Essentially, when someone REALLY knows a language (and this is a difficult level to acheive), you find yourself thinking in that language. Most people, even though they know another language, when it is spoken to them they still have to run what is said back through their heads and think of what it means in their language. (Example, I hear Spanish and my brain translates it to English)
If someone hits that point where they can actually think using that second language, at that point it is very likely that they can also have dreams in that language. In the case of your question, my understanding is that dreams would likely be mixed, but if you are completely submerged in an English speaking culture (no one speaking Korean around you), eventually you would dream more and more in English.
As mentioned, that is second-hand understanding of it. Good question, though!
2007-01-06 01:29:21 · answer #4 · answered by country_girl_in_a_city 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both. Depending on what situation I am in. I don't usually have a running narrative through a dream and people speak the language they usually would to me. I might have words per say in Spanish which I cannot find a suitable equivalent in English and vice versa. It really depends on the events which influence the dream.
2007-01-06 01:24:55 · answer #5 · answered by Confused 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depending on what language I used most recently, I am able to dream in a variety of different languages. It really depends on how much you use a language and how much you are comfortable with it. But despite being quite multilingual, I mostly dream in my mother tongue(s) anyway....
2007-01-06 14:40:14 · answer #6 · answered by Cat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My first language is Bahasa Indonesia.. while i speak english all my life..
I dreamt that i could speak turkish.. while learning the language..
2007-01-06 01:22:52 · answer #7 · answered by Belle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some dreams would definitely be in French.
2007-01-06 01:23:39 · answer #8 · answered by rumplestiltskin12357 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Idk. people say that u are only truly fluent in another language if u dream in it so i would guess that u would dream in both.
2007-01-06 01:18:08 · answer #9 · answered by huskiesfootball 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋