I had the same experiences. Occasionally brief instances of thinking in French during wakefullness, too.
I imagine the switch must be very interesting for people who give up primary use of their native language. My dad came to the US as a boy, not speaking any English- now he thinks in English as opposed to translating in his head.
Interestingly you usually dream in your native language. For me its English but for my mother it depends on who's speaking in her dream, if its her mother it would be Hokkien/chinese whereas if it was me it would be in English
Before this question I thought that my dreams were likely filled with English because thatās my native language and the only language I know fluently. But, when I think more into it - I donāt think anyone speaks in my dreams and things or situations are just implied or somehow known beyond words. Maybe the occasional dream with me screaming like one word like āstopā or ānoā if itās a scary or intense dream. But otherwise there arenāt really actual convos going onā¦ just an understanding of what the convos would be if to take place. But no need for words. Idk lol maybe that makes sense. Anyone else?
Either Spanish or Dutch, and very occasionally in English. It's funny how, the more you use a language in your daily affairs, the more you think and dream in that language - even if that language is not your native language
Depends on who I talk with my in my dream. I have international and native Dutch friends so depending on who I'm with in my dream the language changes. I have very realistic dreams so my friends will also only speak a language I know they speak
Mainly English or Spanish but occasionally Portuguese, italian, Latin, and hmong. I speak many of the romance languages so not surprising. I don't speak hmong, but Growing up my friend was hmong and I stayed at her house quite a bit. Her mom would wake us up early yelling in hmong for us to do chores. Sometimes I dream about her mom talking so one time, I told my friend what her mom said in dream. My friend started laughing and said, "it means, wake up, go cook rice and sweep floors"
It's more of a rapid chain of images, like a bunch of scenes from multiple movies mixed together on 2x speed with some frames missing, mostly first person, I never dream in a particular language.
English but occasionally Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. On the rare occasion, I have a dream in German. I even had a dream in Lithuanian one time. That was strange.
You know what, I don't know, I'm not even sure I hear people in my dreams, I don't really see faces either, I just know who it is and what they're saying, but probably french I guess
I am trilingual and fluent in all 3 languages, and I never even wondered before what language I dream in but now that you ask I dream in English, even though it is my second language. However I only lived my first i years in my country of birth and have lived over 26 years in America.
I only speak English, so 99.999999% English, but I was slowly (sloooowwwlly) picking up Norwegian on duolingo, so every now and then a random will ask for Ćøl and brĆød and I wake up confused as fuck.
Itās never proper verbiage, or even a full sentence but it snaps me out of the dream everytime
I'm an English speaker learning Spanish and in my dream, the invisible Mexican devil was in my kitchen and spoke Spanish at me fast in a panic and I gave him the Moscato wine I had in my hand to calm him down. Then he said, "Muchos Gracias" and left with the bottle.
Mostly French or Norwegian, rarely English. What language I dream in seems to be pretty random; I've heard friends speak French, and family speak Norwegian in my dreams even though these persons can't speak these langugages in real life.
I dream in english, but im learning dutch and german so recently ill get dreams where someone will speak gibberish that sounds like those languages or say a phrase i know.
I usually dream in English due to using it on daily basis. My first language is reserved only to my family so I speak it very rarely this days unfortunately. But I did catch myself dreaming in other languages too.
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