Comments on: Dreaming in another language

By: Retnan

Retnan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:10:18 +0000

Your dream doesn’t “mean” anything silly. It’s just your subconscious.

By: Justyn

Justyn — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:27:12 +0000

I have never learned or studied Latin, but last night I had a dream where a woman’s thoughts were being amplified to the point where I could hear them as if through a loudspeaker. The words that were spoken as she looked at me were: “Come closer . . .closer. . .” and then, after I put my face in whispering distance of her face, she said, “Dominae.”

As soon as I woke up this morning I looked it up and the Latin translation means “Lady” or “Mistress.” WTH?

By: johanna meixner

johanna meixner — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:27:26 +0000

Hi,

you could join the forum on http://www.dreamviews.com/.

Maybe it will be very interesting for you
jm

By: eili cooper oliver

eili cooper oliver — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:39:08 +0000

hey
i’m a bilingual gaelic/english speaker and i speak fairly good french. i also have basic spanish, used to take swedish lessons and am now learning russian.
dreaming in french isn’t that unusual since i often think in french but i have several times dreamt in swedish and understood everything. unfortunately when i wake up i have no memory of this understanding. just recently i had a dream in russian. at least the person i was speaking to actually speaks russian in real life because often people in my dreams speak languages which in reality they cannot.

By: Ni How from Down under

Ni How from Down under — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:12:43 +0000

Hi,

I dreamt in chinese last night and I dont speak a word of it. Im not taking Chinese classes and I dont really like Chinese food.

Someone told me it was because I was chinese in my previous life but I dont believe in that stuff. Another person told me it was because I am going to marry a chinese guy…I hope not because my fiance is African and I love him alot.

Does anyone know what this means?

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:13:26 +0000

Hi! My native language is Portuguese, I can speak English, Spanish and French (the two latter are very close to Portuguese, and therefore easier to learn), and I’ve been studying Russian.

- I remember dreaming a lot in English, and I always understood the things that were said.

- I’ve never dreamed in Spanish or French, languages that I’ve started to learn recently (two years ago).

- I’ve started to learn Russian this very year, but strangelly I have already dreamed in it.

The dream was the weirdest thing ever: I listend to a russian guy telling some friends of him that he was having problems trying to close a door. I could understand what they said, but I couldn’t talk, then I asked my husband (who speaks Russian like a native speaker, though he’s not) to explain him how to do it.

Weird, isn’t it?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:41:14 +0000

Hi,

This is really interesting to hear what you all have to say about dreaming in foreign languages. I have been having dreams in Russian since I began taking Russian. At first they were pretty basic, then when I did a program over the summer where I was speaking only Russian for two months, my dreams got much more frequent (sometimes several nights in a row) and began getting more complex.

I used to wake up understanding most of what I had said in my dreams. Now that I am more advanced in my Russian studies, I will often times wake up remembering what I said, but not understand a word or two that was said. Oddly enough, when I look the words up, they are actual words and make sense according to the situation in the dream.

Has anyone else had similar experiences? I find this so puzzling yet amazing that our minds can dream in foreign languages to the extent that they can.

-Kathleen

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:46:38 +0000

I had 2 dreams that included a foreign language (italian) I mean the whole dream was in english but it had a word or a phrase in italian e.g. i had a dream about this guy and he was playing a song called “scherzo de notte” i had no idea what it meant so i looked it up and i found out that it meant “the joke of the night” and then i remembered that we were talking about jokes the night before i had this dream about him

the other dream happened after talking to a guy that i really like and it was about having a message from a girl called “amore”
so i looked it up and i found out that it meant “love”

so i think this whole dreaming in another language is quite weird

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:01:31 +0000

I have had dreams in which the other person was using Costa Rican Sign Language (I learned Costa Rican Sign Language while living abroad for a semester) while being closed-captioned in French at the same time. I have also had dreams that I could speak well in another language (something like German or Russian–it was a language that I did not know in real life). Many times, I dream in English closed-captioning or I simply can understand spoken English perfectly! Also, I dream in American Sign Language (I am deaf in real life) and other times I can understand what people are saying without words being spoken (like I can sense what they are saying). Sometimes I have dreams in Spanish (I have studied Spanish for many years). Other times I dream in languages that I only studied for a few months such as French or Italian.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:17:40 +0000

When I first moved to China I dreamt in Chinese a few times.

Once I remembered what I had said in the dream and repeated it to my teacher… and it was actually a coherent sentence, far far more advanced than my level of Chinese at the time.

I figured that my subconscious had figured out Chinese, before my conscious brain had any idea what I was saying.