Hi there!
I'm from spain and i have always dreamt in spanish and catalan, but today i dreamt in english and i don't know why, i don't know what was the dream about, i just remmember it was in english, also don't know if the dialog was in proper english or english invented by my mind by using the associated phonemes.
What do you think??
2007-10-03 01:48:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I dream in English (it's my native language) but I have had dreams in Spanish before. (I studied it in high school and college).
I also wasn't sure if the speakers were grammatically correct, but I understood what they were saying...and from what I could collect, they were real words. (I used to watch the telenovelas on the Spanish channel and I think that's what influenced my dream).
I once heard that when you start dreaming in other launguages it shows that you've mastered it. If that's true, horray for you! :-)
2007-10-03 05:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by YSIC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have dreams in Sign, and I remember the exchanges. They are usually authentic. I have had such dreams in Hindi and Persian. I have dreamt that I was conversing in Sanskrit, and that was certainly a fabulation, something like those 'fabricated memories' one hears of in court. On a normal morning, I dream in a distasteful mix of French and English.
2007-10-03 03:41:06 · answer #2 · answered by hindisikhnewaalaa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person dreams usually in the language they fluently and speak constantly. Sometimes a person might dream in different languages because of something or someone they saw during the day or thought about that reminded them of another language. Your thoughts throughout the day is what usually helps make dreams.
2007-10-03 02:02:46 · answer #3 · answered by pre h 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that's pretty normal.
My dreams usually consist of a little Spanish, Japanese, & English with the occasional German, Chinese, and French... but that's because those are languages that I've been exposed to.
2007-10-03 01:56:06 · answer #4 · answered by 5475uj1/// 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to know if you dream in _any_ language - it could be that in dreams we just experience abstract ideas and thoughts in a way we are not used to.
If you dream about a cow, are you dreaming of the word "cow"? Are you dreaming of the dictionary definition of a cow? Or are you dreaming of _the_idea_ of a cow? Ideas don't necessarily have to be in any language for them to still exist as ideas.
I think the fact that you are trying to attach "labels" to dreams to say which language they were in is just a tribute to the fact that the human brain will do the strangest of things to try and make sense of itself. Personally I believe that dreams are dreams, and not really related to language.
2007-10-03 01:58:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dream in my mother tongue. I am from india and my mother tongue is marathi.
most of the times when i recollected my dreams after waking up, i found that the conversations were either conducted in my mother tongue, or if the person i was talking to was someone who did not know marathi, then in English or Hindi languages.
2007-10-03 01:56:03 · answer #6 · answered by kavitathattil 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everybody in this world dream in his/her mother tongue although some times pple do dream in other language but not mostly.
2007-10-03 02:00:55 · answer #7 · answered by winnynjerikim 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I usually dream in English/German or Japanese.
2007-10-03 03:57:46 · answer #8 · answered by xxinvain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dream in my language
2007-10-03 02:04:24 · answer #9 · answered by freestyler 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋