Dreaming in your second language?

[mitchellgrzechnik]

I've only had this happen to me once and it was a really strange occasion. It had been years since I had been in school and used French. I live in western Canada, there's not a big French speaking community so I don't get to use it a lot. Out of nowhere I had this nightmare in French. I was trying to talk to my friends but every time I spoke it came out in French. No matter how hard I tried to speak English it wouldn't come out. I don't remember a whole lot else from the dream but that's weird right?

Anyone else had experiences like this? Well then lets hear it!

[MyDigitalpoint]

I don't remember what the dream was about, but I remember to have had a dream where all people in it was speaking in my second language, including myself.

In the same dream I was aware that everything was spinning around this language, but even my though were flowing in my native language  :wacky:

What I can remember accurately is that this dream came up when I decided to put aside any second language and polish my native grammar and spelling, which I always considered good, but I began to discover were not at all.

However, a few months later after attempting it, I came online for the first time and could not renounce to my second language but improve it every day and up to date  :love:

[justusforus]

I have had dreams where people were speaking in many languages, including my second.  The problem was although I could understand everyone (even other languages I do not study) no one else could seem to understand.  Perhaps it was more of a nightmare, since all chaos ensued, but I did wake before anything went awry.

[sillylucy]

I always have dreams in Spanish and I find them to be so weird because I hear people speaking perfect Spanish. I don't even know some of the words they are saying. It's like watching a telenovela and I am trying to keep up with them.  :frozen:

[Baburra]

I've had some instances when I've dreamed other people talking to me in my second language, probably because I myself don't even really speak it that much in my daily life, and only ever hear it, so I guess it feels relatively natural even in dreams. I wasn't weirded out by it at all.

[marmunmrhundun]

I have never dreamed in my second language, ever. I don't see how I would be able to dream in my second language honestly. I mean its not like I think in that language, and I know dreams are related to the things that you think about. I know for a fact, I don't think in my second language.

[Bonyi]

This is funny. I only dream of me speaking in other tongues- spiritual language! This is the best language on earth that is heard spiritually and gets things done for you.

[fredkawig]

Yes. My second language is English and thus I have always dreamed with it. I actually often do not speak or say words when I'm dreaming and I wonder why. But sometimes I do and most of the time it's in English. Sometimes it is in my native tongue.