Language and Lucid Dreams

The other night I had a ND where I was talking to a guy from Brazil. It was odd in that I was trying to speak in Portuguese (of which I know very little), so I was speaking what I could and filling in the rest with Spanish… I guess my subconscious thought, “hey, they are sort of similar, just mix them up.” But in the dream we understood each other perfectly, though, needless to say, it was an odd-sounding mix…
(By the way, I was trying to convince him that I was from Lisbon… Don’t ask. I have no Idea why.)

I have never had a dream with subtitles, but it sounds cool!

Welcome hotchy!

My mother tongue is Spanish although English took over during 1st grade. I’m fluent in both languages but always dream in English.

I once had a dream where DC’s spoke Japanese or Chinese. Not that I would know the difference but it seemed to have mimicked movies.

Subtitles?! That would be a riot.

tonight i had a dream where everybody spoke french (i’m in france right now) and when I spoke to one of the DC’s he answered in Dutch. It didn’t appear to me to do a RC I just thought:“He is probaby from Belgium (they speak dutch/french there) - how convenient that somebody can speak Dutch here”
anyhow i blame this topic for that dream!

i dont know if this is related, but due to the fact that all my LD souces in my life were written in english, and I have used english mantras for MILD (even though my mother language is greek, and I live in Greece), since 2004 that I started, all my normal dreams are in english!

Dark Alex C

all your ND’s in english? that’s quite amazing

My mother tongue is English. I speak fairly good French, Swiss German and high German. (Swiss German is a dialect form of German that the German’s cannot understand, but the Swiss can understand high German).

A number of times I’ve been speaking Swiss German in my dreams far better (so it appears!!!) than I really can. On waking I wonder whether the fluency is buried deep within me or whether I just perceived it to be so fluent. Very unusual feeling.

With regard to sub-titles, knowing my luck, I wouldn’t have my glasses with me!!!

In all my ND and LD everyone is speaking Swedish. Thou on one account I met a person in my LD where he spoke swedish but couldnt understand it and was frustrated. Unfortenaly I coudlnt figure out which language he understood so we couldnt exchange any information.

You know, the more I think about it. I don’t ever recall a dream in Spanish. I speak enough of it every day but it’s never there. Even when my mom’s in my dreams and that’s all she speaks IRL.

I had a dream recently when one character started speaking spanish. I have also had dreams in Welsh, Danish and Japanese, I don’t actually know any of the languages but my unconscious obvious either picks them up or the dream-wilder gets her dreams mixed up a bit sometimes.

You know darakat what’s funny about what you just posted? It’s that neither of us have heard the languages we “know” we dreampt in but yet we’re so sure that’s what they were speaking in the dreams.

I’ve maybe heard someone speak Japanese a couple of times but not even enough for me to recognize it.

Just last night I had some spanish in my dream. (spanish being a second language to me!) Although I understood it, later when I think about what was said, I am not to sure if it was grammatically correct?!

In my house we speak mostly a mixture of spanish/english - generally there are alot of adjectives, expletives and nouns that are spanish, and a few of the major verbs.

The funniest one I remember was dreaming about my wifes grandmother… she doesn’t know any english, but she was speaking with no worries at all!

When I dream of longer conversations they’re alway german (my native language) and single words sentences or songs are sometimes english. Sometimes IRL I think english too.

I once had a dream in which some guy was constantly talking Italian (sounded very fluidly) to me. Didn’t understand a thing of course

Yesterday I encountered the Japanese word “shihatzu” in a dream. I looked it up and it seems to be some kind of Japanese massage (shiatsu). Never heard of it before, so God knows how it entered my subconsciousness…

I can only imagine what’s said then my household is spanglish too.

I have to admit. Last night was the first time I heard someone speak to me in Spanish. He didn’t say much. I had even seen my grandmother and even she didn’t speak Spanish. Nor did my mom’s neighbor and that’s all she speaks.

I had another dream where I was talking to my wifes mother in spanish… it seems in my dreams, like IRL. If I have to speak spanish to a DC (cause thats what I would do IRL) I will also do this in the dream… otherwise its just plain old english.

But sometimes explaining things in spanish is easier than english.

For the last years or so most or all of my dreams have been in english (even though my native language is spanish). I’ve dreamnt in Japanese once. I was quite fluent at it too! Pity I don’t recall half of what I said.

Well, I come from a finnish family but have lived in Sweden all my life, so in my dreams I speak mostly swedish but finnish with people who speak finnish IRL.

I have had some dreams in english, and I think I also spoke very good french in a dream.

Most if not all dreams i had nowadays are in english even though my mother tongue is spanish. I have to consider that english is my second language at least in writing and reading if not talking, im more of spanglish than spanish.
In my dreams i talk perfect english whereas irl i never speak english unless someone does to me which is extremely rare.

I’ve dreamed in a lot of different languages; Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Pig Latin, backwards English, and some kind of dream language that I’m strangely fluid in even IRL (those are the ones I know) and some others that I don’t know (I hafta check my DJ).