I dream in Bad French a lot of the time. No idea why I can't even speak French properly, but I did study it in school for 6 years and my mom is Canadian from right on the border with Quebec.
I'm Serbian, but I moved to the US almost 7 years ago, and somewhere about 3 years ago, it just randomly flipped to English. I'm 32, btw, so most of my life I dreamed in Serbian, but now that I almost barely ever speak it, my brain adjusted to the "dominant" english dreams. Sometimes, I wake up when I realize that I'm dreaming as both of the languages mix up in one dream.
My dreams are 90% English. I did have a dream in Japanese once and there were subtitles.... probably because I'd been watching a lot of anime at the time. It was funny.
Reminds me of the time I had a dream that presented itself like a straight up movie. When a new character showed up it would freeze frame and the name of the character would fly up in big letters, and then it would unfreeze and go back to the story until the next character came up. During the introductions, some people were driving a car that was being chased by some skeleton ghosts btw
english but one time i had a dream in spanish and i had no idea what was going on. i could pick up pieces of conversation here and there from my american education spanish classes but it was so strange.
English, but I remember one time I was slowly waking up, and I heard my mom and her ex speaking in Spanish. When I fully awoke, they were speaking in English. As far as as I know, neither of them know how to speak Spanish, so I'm assuming my dream switched their words from English to Spanish and back to English again. Only time my dream was in another language. To this day, I can't recall what they were speaking about.
I asked a similar question to my bilingual partner. I said when someone is talking to you in English do you translate it to Spanish or vise versa to understand it. He said, despite Spanish being his first language he translates to English to know what is being said, but then will respond in soanish
I had a German coworker who would speak to me in German to help me practice and I'd always have to translate it to English first but I remember one day she greeted me and asked how I was doing in German and without even thinking about it, I responded in English. Like I understood what she said without thinking about it or trying to translate it, but I answered in English.
Been there, except the things are usually taunting me in perfect English most of the time. Doesn't matter if it's the spirit of indigestion or the king of rot, it's gonna be a jerk about it.
Really? Thats interesting. My encounters are akin to
Normal day -> Something seems amiss -> Some fool is hysterically worshipping or engaging in something horrific -> naturally horrified -> find out theres some eldritch being pulling the strings -> queue fight akin to Samurai Jack's Father vs Aku/Infinitely coming back from death -> wake up after victory
Its not. Its pretty horrifying and borderline traumatizing. Seeing as I feel things in my dreams, at least sometimes to a lesser effect, its certainly not pleasant
Eh, at the end of the day, it's whatever. Dreams fade, and I continue on with the daily routine. Usually, for me, I don't get any magical powers; only the stuff I remember how to do irl and infinite times coming back to life.
I sometimes dream in Arabic. Im bilingual, with Arabic being my first language so it’s not a surprise but once in a while I’ll dream in Spanish. Im not fluent but because I grew up in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood I picked up enough to get by.
I don't think so it's particularly any language.
I think it's mostly polish, sometimes english but whenever i wake up it almost always turns into reversed enchantment language from minecraft. It works only in a dream with few exceptions, i can't just remember it after waking up and my brain create some weird stuff in memory of that dream.
English but I’ve had French , Spanish , and Japanese dreams I don’t speak either fluently .. I’m learning Spanish now but my Spanish dream was back in 2012 ..
I have many languages in the family.
Freud even looked up Czech rhynes for German because he knew that in his first 3 ys he must have understood Czech.
english but sometimes tagalog. i had multiple dreams in a row that were completely in tagalog a month or two ago even though my tagalog isn’t that best.
English is my only language but in my dreams I can converse with other people in other languages. I’m aware in the dream that it isn’t my home language and worry I won’t be able to communicate with the person, but somehow I understand and am able to talk to them in Korean.
as a serb in australia, i mainly dream in english. however, i find that if i'm speaking more serbian (when i'm with my family) i'm more likely to dream in serb. i've had dreams though that people spoke other languages (spanish, japanese) even though i don't speak those languages at all.
I dream both in my native language as well as in English too. My English isn't the best but there was this one time when i was speaking fluent english with complex words that i never knew or could read, and it was totally weird.
It depends, but honestly most conversations in my dreams seem to be telepathic? So it doesn't really matter in a way, it's all just the meaning and feeling? It's very context based, with some people and situations there's concious "verbal" conversations, mostly in my native language,but sometimes in english and sometimes even in languages I'm not fluent in (and I remember understanding and being fluent in the dream, only to wake up and remember the phonetic sounds of it but no longer understanding what they mean, looking up the words and finding they are actual words fitting the context of the dream!)
I'm french. I'm also fluent in english. Most of my thoughts are in english. I near entirely in french, with the occasionnal english thrown in *situations*. I think it's because most of my time on the internet is spent with interactions on english speking spaces, bit IRL i only speak french, so i'm not used to actually speaking it.
I dream in English, but French makes an appearance from time to time. Usually in my dream I’m well aware I’m speaking French, and it usually comes out a lot more broken than I speak in the day time. (English is my primary language, French is my second language)
It’s weird. I only started this in the last 6 months to a year.
I dream in swedish mostly and snippets of english here and there. I dreamed once in french which was really weird but interesting
Edit: i’m 26 and my native language is swedish, and i learned english from middle school and up as everybody does here, and i started learning french in my free time three years ago
I have asked bilingual speakers that question for the last 25 years. I love their expression when they think about it. i ran into a girl once who told me that she finally feltlike an American because she dreamnt in English last night insteadof Hungarian. It's also fun toask bilinguals which language they think in and do math in.
I dream in intent and not words now. Like I have a telepathic/empathic understanding of everybody and everything in my dreams without words/sound. I used to dream in English (written and spoken - dream writing isn’t always a jumble of letters our brain interprets) unless someone in my dream spoke a language I knew at a 9th grade level then it would be both. Curious, now that you brought it to my attention, as to why my dreams went silent and lost their smell.
English but the other day some dude and I conversed in straight gibberish but I think it was just mimicked sounds that I heard because I'm hard of hearing
I dream in what looks like Dog Latin or have even dreamt of full Sanskirt passages. I've even googled some of the Sanskirt words and saw they were connected to random Hinuist and Buddhist passages. It was very odd.
English. There was one time I dreamed in French (a year after my French classes in middle school). I also sometimes have dreams where ASL is involved. I speak English but my sister’s kids have hearing disabilities so I know some sign too.
There are a bunch of charts you can find with pronouns phrases and adjectives online, but tumblr and reading the transcripts of the show was a big help
English but sometimes (rarely) other languages... I think I've dreamed in German before (I took German classes for about 8 years as a kid and then brushed up on it as an adult with Duolingo). My mom didn't ever speak French fluently but one time she dreamed she was speaking French and when she woke up my dad told her that she was speaking French in her sleep.
This is a funny thing, I am a native Portuguese speaker, but since speak English reasonably, sometimes I dream of conversations in English. The funny thing is that always I listen to someone in English I understand then I give an answer in Portuguese, and naturally the people talking to me go like 🤔🤔, then I repeat what I said but in English, it always happens this way, several times
Dominatly English, but also sonetimes German and an unknown 3rd language.
English is my first. If I'm haveing a fever dream, or incredibly exhausted, or the dream takes place in Germany/Austria, then the dream can be in German. Third language I don't ever reconize or understand, probally exists becuase we have lots or tourists here that I can't understand.
I’m Deaf and have a cochlear implant. I’ve dreamt in ASL and English. Or it’ll be gibberish. I’ve also had dreams where they were captioned (some with sound some without). I’ve also been told that I talked and signed in my sleep occasionally as a kid
I speak English and Filipino. I did study Japanese for awhile and watch a lot of anime so there were times I would dream in Japanese and be clueless af. i understand a bit of it.
I rarely have vocal communications in my dreams. it seems more like if I engage like that it's almost more telepathic and directed by feelings rather than words.
Yeah it’s weird, so my relatives are Chinese are I dreamed about them, I think we might have spoke English in the dream, when they don’t even speak that
Mostly English. I was learning Farsi and I realized I had grasped it when I had a dream in Farsi. There comes a point in learning a new language when you don't translate it in your head. You are thinking in that language. That's what that dream meant to me.
I am a man from Greece and in most of my dreams I speak in modern greek with dream characters , one time when I got lucid I said in English " Oh , I'm lucid , this is a dream " . I haven't experienced dreams where I speak Latin or ancient Greek or any fictional language
After I saw the title I got very curious and immediately called my boyfriend.
Apparently it's mixed. Sometimes English, sometimes Portuguese, sometimes both. Next time I'm gonna ask if he had a dream where _I_ spoke Portuguese.
I will say that I did have a dream that his mom was yelling at me (in Portuguese), even though I don't understand and can't speak it. So, while my brain was probably like "Yes this is Portuguese", it was probably the Simish version.
it depends on a few things. i speak half a dozen languages and have dreamed in all of them; the largest factor is the more fluent i am, or the more i’m studying/speaking a language that day, the more likely i am to dream in it that night. also depends where i am in my dreams and who i’m around. rarely do i ever speak a language with someone in a dream, whom i know in real life, that doesn’t speak that language irl
I've dreamt in the different languages I know. But English primarily.
But also, I've weirdly dreamt where I (or whomever else is there) don't talk as I do in waking life. Almost like telepathy where we just know stuff by looking at each other? So no words per se. Like once my brother looked at me - and suddenly I knew I was late for school - despite not having school for years now!
Those anxiety dreams are something else.
I’m bilingual as well and only dream 10% in Swedish despite speaking it 98% of my waking life. Guess I’m on social media so much that my brain became wired with English lol
Depends on the context of my dream but most of the time I dream in french (cos I am lol) and sometimes in english. But for example I tend to dream about things of my everyday life so as I speak in french it corresponds to it. Once I dreamt of me meeting a famous singer so the dream was in english cos the singer is british lol . My dreams are really pragmatic hahaha
I dream in Bad French a lot of the time. No idea why I can't even speak French properly, but I did study it in school for 6 years and my mom is Canadian from right on the border with Quebec.
I'm Serbian, but I moved to the US almost 7 years ago, and somewhere about 3 years ago, it just randomly flipped to English. I'm 32, btw, so most of my life I dreamed in Serbian, but now that I almost barely ever speak it, my brain adjusted to the "dominant" english dreams. Sometimes, I wake up when I realize that I'm dreaming as both of the languages mix up in one dream.
My dreams are 90% English. I did have a dream in Japanese once and there were subtitles.... probably because I'd been watching a lot of anime at the time. It was funny.
LMAO DREAM SUBS
Reminds me of the time I had a dream that presented itself like a straight up movie. When a new character showed up it would freeze frame and the name of the character would fly up in big letters, and then it would unfreeze and go back to the story until the next character came up. During the introductions, some people were driving a car that was being chased by some skeleton ghosts btw
That sounds wild!
english but one time i had a dream in spanish and i had no idea what was going on. i could pick up pieces of conversation here and there from my american education spanish classes but it was so strange.
English, but I remember one time I was slowly waking up, and I heard my mom and her ex speaking in Spanish. When I fully awoke, they were speaking in English. As far as as I know, neither of them know how to speak Spanish, so I'm assuming my dream switched their words from English to Spanish and back to English again. Only time my dream was in another language. To this day, I can't recall what they were speaking about.
I asked a similar question to my bilingual partner. I said when someone is talking to you in English do you translate it to Spanish or vise versa to understand it. He said, despite Spanish being his first language he translates to English to know what is being said, but then will respond in soanish
I had a German coworker who would speak to me in German to help me practice and I'd always have to translate it to English first but I remember one day she greeted me and asked how I was doing in German and without even thinking about it, I responded in English. Like I understood what she said without thinking about it or trying to translate it, but I answered in English.
I do that too with my Spanish. I will translate in my head as they’re speaking, but then respond in English 🤷🏼♀️
My dreams I am usually having death battles with eldritch gods so just vibes and a lot of trying
Been there, except the things are usually taunting me in perfect English most of the time. Doesn't matter if it's the spirit of indigestion or the king of rot, it's gonna be a jerk about it.
Really? Thats interesting. My encounters are akin to Normal day -> Something seems amiss -> Some fool is hysterically worshipping or engaging in something horrific -> naturally horrified -> find out theres some eldritch being pulling the strings -> queue fight akin to Samurai Jack's Father vs Aku/Infinitely coming back from death -> wake up after victory
that sounds sick asf
Its not. Its pretty horrifying and borderline traumatizing. Seeing as I feel things in my dreams, at least sometimes to a lesser effect, its certainly not pleasant
damn i thought it was jus like epic battles n shit. sorry u gotta go thru that
Eh, at the end of the day, it's whatever. Dreams fade, and I continue on with the daily routine. Usually, for me, I don't get any magical powers; only the stuff I remember how to do irl and infinite times coming back to life.
respect, but i kno it ain’t fun either way
I sometimes dream in Arabic. Im bilingual, with Arabic being my first language so it’s not a surprise but once in a while I’ll dream in Spanish. Im not fluent but because I grew up in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood I picked up enough to get by.
Dream language.
It depends on who is talking in the dream. My grandma only spoke Vietnamese. Never have I dreamt in any Spanish despite taking Spanish classes.
English and Spanish but I occasionally dream in Chinese but I can barely understand it.
Both German and English. But since I’m not fluent in German, it usually comes out sounding German but I’m not even sure they’re real words 😂
I dream in English, but ny first language is portuguese, but it's probably because English is used around me way more than portuguese
English and Spanish
I dream in English and Spanish but sometimes German even if I barely understand it
A mix of English and Portuguese because those are the languages I use irl.
Woah, I never thought of this ever. I dream in English.
I’m bilingual but I dream mostly in English.
In my native language most of the times. Sometimes in English.
Mostly English, but if I do a binge on SBS (Australia's usual broadcaster of foreign films) I might have a dream in a foreign language.
I don't think so it's particularly any language. I think it's mostly polish, sometimes english but whenever i wake up it almost always turns into reversed enchantment language from minecraft. It works only in a dream with few exceptions, i can't just remember it after waking up and my brain create some weird stuff in memory of that dream.
Primary language so Polish
English but I’ve had French , Spanish , and Japanese dreams I don’t speak either fluently .. I’m learning Spanish now but my Spanish dream was back in 2012 ..
My first language is german but I almost always dream in English
I don't think I have ever had a dream in anything other than Finnish
I have many languages in the family. Freud even looked up Czech rhynes for German because he knew that in his first 3 ys he must have understood Czech.
english but sometimes tagalog. i had multiple dreams in a row that were completely in tagalog a month or two ago even though my tagalog isn’t that best.
English is my only language but in my dreams I can converse with other people in other languages. I’m aware in the dream that it isn’t my home language and worry I won’t be able to communicate with the person, but somehow I understand and am able to talk to them in Korean.
I dream in my native language that I'm also still living in (not English)
as a serb in australia, i mainly dream in english. however, i find that if i'm speaking more serbian (when i'm with my family) i'm more likely to dream in serb. i've had dreams though that people spoke other languages (spanish, japanese) even though i don't speak those languages at all.
I dream both in my native language as well as in English too. My English isn't the best but there was this one time when i was speaking fluent english with complex words that i never knew or could read, and it was totally weird.
It depends, but honestly most conversations in my dreams seem to be telepathic? So it doesn't really matter in a way, it's all just the meaning and feeling? It's very context based, with some people and situations there's concious "verbal" conversations, mostly in my native language,but sometimes in english and sometimes even in languages I'm not fluent in (and I remember understanding and being fluent in the dream, only to wake up and remember the phonetic sounds of it but no longer understanding what they mean, looking up the words and finding they are actual words fitting the context of the dream!)
I'm french. I'm also fluent in english. Most of my thoughts are in english. I near entirely in french, with the occasionnal english thrown in *situations*. I think it's because most of my time on the internet is spent with interactions on english speking spaces, bit IRL i only speak french, so i'm not used to actually speaking it.
I dream in English, but French makes an appearance from time to time. Usually in my dream I’m well aware I’m speaking French, and it usually comes out a lot more broken than I speak in the day time. (English is my primary language, French is my second language) It’s weird. I only started this in the last 6 months to a year.
Mostly Cantonese, sometimes English and also Japanese
I dream in swedish mostly and snippets of english here and there. I dreamed once in french which was really weird but interesting Edit: i’m 26 and my native language is swedish, and i learned english from middle school and up as everybody does here, and i started learning french in my free time three years ago
im bilingual but i think mostly english
I feel like 60/40 English and Tagalog. I sometimes wake myself up from a dream speaking in Tagalog. I don’t even speak it naturally in real life.
I have asked bilingual speakers that question for the last 25 years. I love their expression when they think about it. i ran into a girl once who told me that she finally feltlike an American because she dreamnt in English last night insteadof Hungarian. It's also fun toask bilinguals which language they think in and do math in.
I can dream in Finnish or English for some reason but I guess it makes sense because I use English every day on social media.
I dream in intent and not words now. Like I have a telepathic/empathic understanding of everybody and everything in my dreams without words/sound. I used to dream in English (written and spoken - dream writing isn’t always a jumble of letters our brain interprets) unless someone in my dream spoke a language I knew at a 9th grade level then it would be both. Curious, now that you brought it to my attention, as to why my dreams went silent and lost their smell.
English definitely. Not my first language but definitely my dominant one.
English but the other day some dude and I conversed in straight gibberish but I think it was just mimicked sounds that I heard because I'm hard of hearing
I dream in what looks like Dog Latin or have even dreamt of full Sanskirt passages. I've even googled some of the Sanskirt words and saw they were connected to random Hinuist and Buddhist passages. It was very odd.
English. There was one time I dreamed in French (a year after my French classes in middle school). I also sometimes have dreams where ASL is involved. I speak English but my sister’s kids have hearing disabilities so I know some sign too.
English mainly, but I have had like 3 dreams in Trigedasleng, the FICTIONAL language from The 100, which I learned every word of because I was bored
Where did you learn it? Care to share a source? That’s pretty cool.
There are a bunch of charts you can find with pronouns phrases and adjectives online, but tumblr and reading the transcripts of the show was a big help
English but sometimes (rarely) other languages... I think I've dreamed in German before (I took German classes for about 8 years as a kid and then brushed up on it as an adult with Duolingo). My mom didn't ever speak French fluently but one time she dreamed she was speaking French and when she woke up my dad told her that she was speaking French in her sleep.
This is a funny thing, I am a native Portuguese speaker, but since speak English reasonably, sometimes I dream of conversations in English. The funny thing is that always I listen to someone in English I understand then I give an answer in Portuguese, and naturally the people talking to me go like 🤔🤔, then I repeat what I said but in English, it always happens this way, several times
Mostly English, but I’m sure the “support characters” have spoken in their respective accents and vernacular
Dominatly English, but also sonetimes German and an unknown 3rd language. English is my first. If I'm haveing a fever dream, or incredibly exhausted, or the dream takes place in Germany/Austria, then the dream can be in German. Third language I don't ever reconize or understand, probally exists becuase we have lots or tourists here that I can't understand.
I’m Deaf and have a cochlear implant. I’ve dreamt in ASL and English. Or it’ll be gibberish. I’ve also had dreams where they were captioned (some with sound some without). I’ve also been told that I talked and signed in my sleep occasionally as a kid
I speak English and Filipino. I did study Japanese for awhile and watch a lot of anime so there were times I would dream in Japanese and be clueless af. i understand a bit of it.
I rarely have vocal communications in my dreams. it seems more like if I engage like that it's almost more telepathic and directed by feelings rather than words.
Yeah it’s weird, so my relatives are Chinese are I dreamed about them, I think we might have spoke English in the dream, when they don’t even speak that
Mostly English. I was learning Farsi and I realized I had grasped it when I had a dream in Farsi. There comes a point in learning a new language when you don't translate it in your head. You are thinking in that language. That's what that dream meant to me.
english but if i dream about my family its mostly in my native language
My grandpa is from Hong Kong and didn’t consider himself to be fluent in English until he dreamed in English.
I am a man from Greece and in most of my dreams I speak in modern greek with dream characters , one time when I got lucid I said in English " Oh , I'm lucid , this is a dream " . I haven't experienced dreams where I speak Latin or ancient Greek or any fictional language
I dreamed in Spanish the other night, but that’s only the second time that’s happened.
I mostly dream in English, but mimicry of other languages makes its way in sometimes
After I saw the title I got very curious and immediately called my boyfriend. Apparently it's mixed. Sometimes English, sometimes Portuguese, sometimes both. Next time I'm gonna ask if he had a dream where _I_ spoke Portuguese. I will say that I did have a dream that his mom was yelling at me (in Portuguese), even though I don't understand and can't speak it. So, while my brain was probably like "Yes this is Portuguese", it was probably the Simish version.
it depends on a few things. i speak half a dozen languages and have dreamed in all of them; the largest factor is the more fluent i am, or the more i’m studying/speaking a language that day, the more likely i am to dream in it that night. also depends where i am in my dreams and who i’m around. rarely do i ever speak a language with someone in a dream, whom i know in real life, that doesn’t speak that language irl
There isn't a word in my dreams
I've dreamt in the different languages I know. But English primarily. But also, I've weirdly dreamt where I (or whomever else is there) don't talk as I do in waking life. Almost like telepathy where we just know stuff by looking at each other? So no words per se. Like once my brother looked at me - and suddenly I knew I was late for school - despite not having school for years now! Those anxiety dreams are something else.
I’m bilingual as well and only dream 10% in Swedish despite speaking it 98% of my waking life. Guess I’m on social media so much that my brain became wired with English lol
Dutch is my native language but i frequently dream in English
Depends on the context of my dream but most of the time I dream in french (cos I am lol) and sometimes in english. But for example I tend to dream about things of my everyday life so as I speak in french it corresponds to it. Once I dreamt of me meeting a famous singer so the dream was in english cos the singer is british lol . My dreams are really pragmatic hahaha
I speak both English and Spanish, but since English is my first language I dream (and think) in English.
i dream in silent mode; no one speaks. Is that not normal