Dream in English.
 

I think I had my first dream 100% in english a couple nights ago.

sometimes I dream in Amharic which fucking trips me out to no end, because my amharic is lousy and I am by no means fluent, and yet in dreams I am practically a native speaker. I wake up wondering where my reality really is after such dreams..

I am other people in my dreams

My dreams are conducted kind of uh, telepathically. No real talking. It would be interesting to dream in another language though.

Strange. I have the same experience with Spanish. My Spanish is really really rusty and I'm terrible at putting phrases together yet it manages to flow from my mouth with the greatest ease in dreams.

Did it have subtitles?

Nope, and I think it wasn't even a proper 5.1 dream :(.

I am bi-lingual and have dual citizenship. When I have spent long periods of time in my other homeland I know my mind has "switched over" when I start dreaming in that language.

Wow, that sounds weird, but somehow "natural" too.
Are "your languages" much different?
I guess so..


In this case my other homeland was the left side of my bed.
It felt pretty weird, I remember bits of the dream and conversations, I was talking with a guy about the big windows and the red painted walls in his house, then we started talking about music and I said somethink about moose steaks I ate in Sweden. Then we went outside and I started taking pics of trees.

This happens.

But I'd say the truth is people rarely dream in words or of words, it does happen, but not often.
I mean, we think something is being spoken, we understand it, we reply, but I bet most of the time they're not real words.

I can't think of any time I've ever made a dream with full conversations; just bits and pieces of dialog-and yet there's always communication...

I often have dreams that I don't participate in. It's just like watching a movie.

what happened? was it a dirty dream?

It is a hair raising kind of feeling. The languages are Swedish and English. Yes, very different.

I had a dream that I was the only man in the world, and absolutely every female looked like a certain someone....heaven, at first. Then an utter nightmare.

That sounds kind of worrying?

this describes my everyday social occurrences..... even right now, me to you " ________________________________ "

'ya feel me?

I'm not even bi-lingual but I did have some dreams in English... Too much time on this board eh !

Why?

Dreams suck full stop.

I look forward to dreams. Even the bad ones...

I dream in the international language of love, which is to say, there's lots of moaning and sometimes busses.

I'm fluent n Spanish and I don't think I've ever dreamt in Spanish

I find I dream less and less as the days go on. Could it be an early sign of Alzheimer approaching?

Everyone dreams, you just remember them less. And yeah, I know the theories regarding people just not dreaming...I just don;t believe them. The mind (even for those w/ old-timers disease) never stops.

A terrible dream is often better that a really good movie.

There was about a decade there where I didn't remember a single dream. I hated going to sleep for a long time.

I rarely have dreams, only nightmares. I can't remember the last time I actually had a good dream.
I must work on this.

@ knox: You should be relieved to know I had a dream last night/this morning with actual conversations..but there's no way I could tell you what any of them were about.

@ artsy: Yeah, you need to work on that. It could be a sign of psychological trauma...

This whole thing about not being in your dreams - I think I read something about it I can't remember what it is supposed to mean tho...

I've been told that since the beginning of the 21st century, human beings dream differently because their dreams are VERY influenced (unconsciously of course) by movie conventions so, nowadays, dreams look more like movies than during the previous decades... I find this very interesting, I wonder what did 17th-century people's dreams look like...

is there anything to read about that?
that's so exciting.

I used to have dreams in English when I was in the US and spoke nothing but English (with the exception of occasional phone calls home) so my brain started fucking with me.

That's weird, I find nothing about it on the internet... But I found this article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ur-dreams.html

It's not what I was talking about but it's pretty interesting stuff too.

it's amazing.