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Poll: Do you ever dream in a language other than your native language?
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Nathaniel2
Nathaniel2
Local time: 06:43
Slovak to English
just the opposite Jun 6, 2011

I don't usually notice what language I dream in. But, as I currently live in a country where my native language (English) is not spoken I find that unlike some of the responses here I dream in my second language when I visit a country where my native language is spoken for longer periods, and then when I return I dream in English for a few weeks. In both these cases I talk out loud whilst sleeping and this has been pointed out to me... See more
I don't usually notice what language I dream in. But, as I currently live in a country where my native language (English) is not spoken I find that unlike some of the responses here I dream in my second language when I visit a country where my native language is spoken for longer periods, and then when I return I dream in English for a few weeks. In both these cases I talk out loud whilst sleeping and this has been pointed out to me ▲ Collapse
 
Patricia Prevost
Patricia Prevost  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 06:43
English to Spanish
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Other: I don't know! Jun 6, 2011

I guess I only dream in Spanish, then.
 
Marlene Blanshay
Marlene Blanshay  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 00:43
Member (2009)
French to English
+ ...
not that I can recall Jun 7, 2011

but I have had dreams where people were talking in an unintelligible language, gibberish..like I'd dial the phone and the person would pick up and speak some unknown language. But not in years....
 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 21:43
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Sometimes Jun 7, 2011

My Brazilian husband told me I talked in my sleep in Portuguese. Of course that made sense because he was right there. It happens when I've been speaking Portuguese all day. It doesn't happen for me in Spanish, even though I lived in Mexico for a while.
 
Popie Matsouka
Popie Matsouka
Greece
Local time: 07:43
Member (2011)
English to Greek
+ ...
Always Jun 7, 2011

I always dream in English, although I am a native Greek. English is like a mother tongue to me. It has always been like this, since I was a child and I had first started learning English. My grandmother says I could be an old english soul
 
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