Our dream is our creation of mind activities and general i do not come across much dreams power and in my case I see visualization of my dream which may remain a guideline for me

This is my personal opinion

may be in my mother tongue URDU, but mostly silent dream

Depends on where I am. I think it is same as my real life.

Do we actually use a language? Reading the responses, I think many wonder if we do. This is communication with ourselves and un/specific parts of ourselves-whatever happens in our dreams carries symbolic value perhaps.

My dreams are like movies. If there is dialogue the characters, which sometimes include myself featured "onscreen", speak the languages typical of my waking life, i.e almost always English, with rare and limited bits of German.

I sometimes hear different languages in one dream. Myself I can communicate in five languages.

A language appears in the person's dream is one spoken or known by the dreamer. Even a language learned by the dreamer, but rarely spoken by him/her, may also appear in the dream.

Good question Zin Eddine Dadach , I dream a lot yet I don't remember using human language in my dream. Language is a means of communication and is very limited in many aspects. For instance, if I have a lot of ideas in my mind, I can't transfer it to someone at once, there are so many barriers that could create misunderstanding and therefore needs time. Imagine you can communicate with someone in millisecond range with a huge amount of data, that is how my dream is like. In my dream, I just know things, I don't know how but just know and make people know. As you know, many of our dreams are our creations, we do what we want to do in our dream. In real life I always wish to play basket ball and I am a great player in my dream; I like a quite beach which I haven't seen in my life but I have one heaven like beach which I always go. I also learn things fast in my dream like driving but language is not always there for communication with other people.

Thank you Samuel for the long explanation. I do agree with you that usually we do not remember the language. This could be explained by the fact that language in for outer world but the dreams is the life of our inner world.

mother language

Even though i rarely dream but if that happened it is a mother language.

Good question!

It depends on every situation and people you see and talk to in your dreams. Most of the time I am using my mother tongue. I think we do that undeliberately it's not as we are awake. It's really amazing.

Dear Zin Eddine Dadach , thank you for your kind words. I think communication among our neurons can not be by using language though we usually try to interpret it to our human language, especially mother tongue. Do you have ideas weather you dream it or think or visualize it yet you never told any one about it for it is unexplainable, lack of words or language expressions? Every thing can not be explained by word. There are colors we see in our dreams and shapes as well or smells or a voice you never heard in real world, so how do you interpret it and understand these things using human language. FYI, If two robots communicate, they can precisely transfer their message with precise shape, size, color, voice (frequency) etc. I believe the digital world is imitating our mind.

I invite professionals and psychiatrists in to this discussion.

The mother language if i could remember

I'm a Japanese and use mostly the Japanese language in dreams. However, I use English in scientific work. Thus, I sometimes find myself speaking in English in dreams.

Strange Question! But really need to be discussed carefully. The multi-lingual speaking in dreams may be comes from different jobs and/or tasks we faced in our life.

Urdu.

My dreams are quite vivid and primarily emotional based and visual. Secondarily, they are auditory in US English and primarily a projection of my own internal processes. BTW dream interpretation is one of my specialties. I have a published article on Brain Blogger in this regard. Great topic.

Rich

Thank you Richard. Would you please tell us more about your book and give us the ISBN.

Zin Eddine Dadach

Zin,

To view much of my work search Richard G Kensinger, MSW. This particular article is a CBT approach to dream analysis. And just to elucidate here, dreams are indeed the royal road to the unconscious. However, many do not recall them. We cycle thru REM 4 to 5 X per night. We are more likely to remember a dream close to awakening. Via brain scans our limbic brain (reacting) is very active. In contrast our neocortex and prefrontal cortex is relatively quiet.

Rich

Dream or vision A series of fantasies that occur during sleep, dreams vary in their coherence and logic, and there are many theories that explain the occurrence of dreams.

Mother Language

Probably dream doesn't follow any specific man-made language. Dream itself is a language.....or better to say.....a way of communication. As the dreamer is in a subconscious state throughout most of the duration of the dream, (s/)he has precisely no language to hear, speak, or share. Dream, mostly, is to feel......like a cinematography. Of course, if limited meaningful word or words, that can at be heard or uttered unknowingly by the dreamer must be the mother language only, nothing else.

Probably dream doesn't follow any specific man-made language. Dream itself is a language.....or better to say.....a way of communication. As the dreamer is in a subconscious state throughout most of the duration of the dream, (s/)he has precisely no language to hear, speak, or share. Dream, mostly, is to feel......like a cinematography. Of course, if limited meaningful word or words, that can at all be heard or uttered unknowingly by the dreamer must be the mother language only, nothing else.

Thank you Amit. Can we consider a dream like a message to us from our inner world?

I speak several languages (my Mother Tongue Is Russian); the language in which I see my dreams depends on their content/scenario. Since during the sleep the control of reasoning is weakened or completely absent - and some events happening in my dreams are very dangerous I often use a mix of languages.

Very interesting topic and fantastic answers

This is very important question.

I have known people who sound like they are attempting to communicate in the ancient language of sus scrofa when they are sleeping.

Most of the time, I do not remember the exact language, in fact my dreams are more visual than vocal, but yet I communicate in Urdu, English, Panjabi and Chinses.

I agree with Karl Pfeifer but language is in English, Telugu and Hindi.

This is an interesting question. My mother language is Spanish and I cant talk fluently in English, German and in somehow Italian. My dreams are a mix of situations in wich I can clearly differentiate between them and sometimes just feelings are coming to me. I believe that this dreams are an expression of our connection with lets say the "free energy" of the universe. I feel that some times ideas and answers come from that connection.

cheers,

There is more to ask, on what languages you think, and so that this is not internal translation. Sometime, somewhere polylinguistic reduce the trust to individual.

Different languages xD

I usually use my mother tongue to dream in; however, at times when I have spent a day with my foreign colleagues, I may dream in English as well.

Following

Well, so far I’ve dreamt in all 5 of the languages I speak: Portuguese, English, German, Spanish and French, with occasional language switch.

I’ve also dreamt in Försk, my conlang.

Three languages, the ones I know well. The place of the dream is related to the language as well. Regards.

Definitely in two languages, for dreams when I was young (one language) - and that happens when I am very tired - and when I immigrated to a new country (second language) - that happens mostly when I "used the brain" a lot for a project interpretation or intensive reading.

Interesting question ? We’re Iam living Canada 🇨🇦 has a multicultural language society wold be a interesting research project , Aim dreaming in English and speaking 60 % German

Mostly mother tongue but almost all languages I speak. A few days back I dreamed people talking in an unknown language when I enquired they told me that it is Chee-chee.

Mother tounge and English.

Mother tongue (Turkish) and French

BTW, for anyone who is interested This is a published article on dream interpretation, which is one of my specialties.

Rich

I know 2 languages, my mother tongue Hindi and English. Most of the times I see dreams as happening of some events with least or no communication. In case of communication, mostly its my mother tongue or sometimes in English.

Raj,

Dreams are often non-verbal and more like mind-reading. BTW, males tend to dream of strangers; while women dream about folks they no. Dreams in those of us are sighted they are quite visual and involve various emotions.

If you have not already, see my attached article.

Rich

Mother tounge (Kannada) & Hindi

Interesting thread!

Besides personal anecdotes, what I find intriguing here is what is the function and meaning of language in sleep? Does it simply reflect daily experience or something more systematic or meaningful?

It would be useful as someone suggested here to do research among bilingual or polyglot populations to see what languages they dream and what governs which language dominates dreams.

I am a polyglot and my dreams are usually in what I call my "master tongue" rather than my mother tongue. "Master tongue" for me is the language I use in my daily life and work - French in Montreal, Italian in Italy, Portuguese in Brazil.

Someone also mentioned that dreams are not necessarily in a particular spoken language and maybe one reconstructs the dream after waking up and creates the memory of it in a given language which may not reflect the actual language of the dream and even more interesting is the possibility that dreams don't necessarily occur in a given language but rather in some kind of deep communicative symbolic language, as Freud clearly documented in his masterwork, "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1900).

Vincenzo Di Nicola

And usually without sounds

I do not know .

Dreams tend to be about the stuff of life which at times resides in our unconscious. Recurrent dreams tend to reflect important unfinished business. Dream interpretation is one of my clinical specialties. I am attaching one of my published articles in this regard. Indeed, this is a fascinating thread.

Rich

English and Hausa

Bulgarian

usually in my native language, but at times there are sub-titles

Language of pictures

Very interesting discussion, I never thought about it. As far as I can tell basically I speak my mother language - Georgian, sometimes other languages that I know.

First language acquired.

Georgian

Native language.

There are not many languages but one universal language of images, concepts and feelings.

My mother language

My mother language; Turkish.

Without votes

My language

Bulgarian, English, Russian, German - in different periods of science and mostly about life were different languages. Now mostly my mother language - Bulgarian.

My language

I wonder how congenitally deaf people incorporate language into their dreams. I can imagine how the characters seen in a dream episode might move their lips or sign with their hands, but I can't imagine how the equivalent of voice-over narration might be achieved. Any congenitally deaf people in this thread who might enlighten us?

الاحلام بدون صوت

My mother language kannada

No language in our dreams

It is not the same language all the time.

My language that I speak

Usually I remember colors, not a special language

My language is Russian

My languages are Bulgarian, English, Russian, German. I dream mostly images, sometime in full colors. Sometime there is Narrator with one central and different voices in rent. There is not much about science but for my hard life. Sincerely I wish to finish the clearance with dreams and to build own family. Physics is my choice of profession and I wish to continue with my theses in research. DMD

the one we practice

Ahmad Saad Ahmad Al-Dafrawi

Interesting. But how did you know it was actually Italian that you spoke in your dream? And did you understand what you were saying?