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Poll: Do you ever dream in a language other than your native language? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you ever dream in a language other than your native language?".
This poll was originally submitted by Nicholas Ferreira. View the poll results »
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My girlfriend says that sometimes I speak English during my dreams...
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Interlangue (X)
Angola
Local time: 15:07
English to French
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I miss "often" between "always" and "sometimes"
According to the language I have been concentrating on - not that I always remember my dreams, but as I often dream aloud, the sound of my voice tends to wake up others and sometimes myself.
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But it is always related somehow to the reality. For example dreaming that I am translating, or communicating with natives that I actually know. As far as I can remember I never had dreams where I would speak my source languages without "being aware" of it.
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It depends who else is in my dream, where I think I am, etc.
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Thayenga 
Germany
Local time: 15:07
Member (2009)
English to German
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although I should have said: I tend to dream in the language of the dream's environment, so to speak. This can sometimes result in a multi-lingual dream.
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Allison Wright (X)
Portugal
Local time: 14:07
Often I wake up in the middle of these dreams. Best described as "language salad". I am told I can be very talkative in my sleep, but largely unintelligible, because of the salad factor.
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Frequently in French (no wonder!), but once I dreamt that I could speak Japanese fluently (probably Freud would explain that...).
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 15:07
Spanish to English
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Whether we actually dream in "languages" per se is debatable, but I do sometimes talk or mumble in Spanish in my sleep...
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Patricia Charnet
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:07
Member (2009)
English to French
but I tend to dream in the language used with the person i.e. in French with my family in France but in English with people in the UK
and when I dream about an event where I was alone it can be either French or English depending on the experience or event and / or location i.e. if event occurred in France French but if event occurred in UK and everything happened in English then in English - if I learned something in French then in French or if learned something in English then in English... See more but I tend to dream in the language used with the person i.e. in French with my family in France but in English with people in the UK
and when I dream about an event where I was alone it can be either French or English depending on the experience or event and / or location i.e. if event occurred in France French but if event occurred in UK and everything happened in English then in English - if I learned something in French then in French or if learned something in English then in English If I drive the car with a French passenger and speak French I moan about bad drivers in French but if alone it can be either French or English.
Maths can be funny though because I learned the tables in French so when I think or dream in English I can revert in French with maths when calculating something to check I did not miscalculate ▲ Collapse
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| Sometimes, but... | Jun 6, 2011 |
...it usually only happens when I'm in the country where my native language isn't spoke and after I've been there for a while (a few months), e.g. when I was in France, eventually I started dreaming in French. Same for Mexico...
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Laura Nagle (X)
United States
Local time: 09:07
French to English
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I usually dream in English (my native language), but when I spend some time in a French- or Spanish-speaking country, I find that the people in my dreams are increasingly likely to speak to me in those languages.
People I know sometimes speak languages in my dreams that they don't speak in real life. For example, my mom, who speaks only English and a smattering of German recalled from high school, simply can't get enough of French in my subconscious. I have to wonder what that's al... See more I usually dream in English (my native language), but when I spend some time in a French- or Spanish-speaking country, I find that the people in my dreams are increasingly likely to speak to me in those languages.
People I know sometimes speak languages in my dreams that they don't speak in real life. For example, my mom, who speaks only English and a smattering of German recalled from high school, simply can't get enough of French in my subconscious. I have to wonder what that's all about. . . . ▲ Collapse
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Allison Wright wrote:
Often I wake up in the middle of these dreams. Best described as "language salad". I am told I can be very talkative in my sleep, but largely unintelligible, because of the salad factor.
Exactly the same. Mine is made up of a espanglish-portuñol-portuglês medly and often I'll talk in my sleep using words of multiple origins and completely unique sentence structures. I kind of like that because nobody would understand it but me.
The worst thing though is when I wake up, the first few seconds I'm only able to speak 'salad' which led to a few laughs on a recent camping trip with my 'international' mates.
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Mami Yamaguchi
Japan
Local time: 22:07
Member (2008)
English to Japanese
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| rarely but... | Jun 6, 2011 |
In my dream, I 'm under pressure to meet a deadline. And a client pushes me to submit translation urgently in English or others languages..
I can't distinguish dream from reality in such a dream.
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Anke Formann
Germany
Local time: 15:07
English to German
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[quote]Interlangue wrote:
I miss "often" between "always" and "sometimes"
Same here! I dream both in English and Spanish and it happens rather frequently.
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