Mar 11, 2010

Well, since this blog is called TRAUMhaus...

Two Germans have told me lately, "I had a dream in English!"
I guess it's something we don't think about that often...people that speak another language obviously dream in that language, but when they speak more than one, I guess they still almost always dream in their muttersprache. Sometimes I ask people what language they think in. My friend here in Reykjavik, he's German but has lived in Iceland for a long time so speaks fluent English with an Icelandic accent instead of a German accent. He told me he thinks less and less in German and more in English but had his first dream in English just a few weeks ago. Jochen, who's English isn't as good, also told me he had a dream in English and woke up confused as to why that happened.
I had a dream in French the other night. Someone asked me what happened in it, but in the dream I couldn't understand all of the French! But why was I dreaming in it then?
I try to think in German sometimes. Just for practice.

I wish I studied linguistics.

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  1. i remember jochen telling me about that. sometimes i dream in spanish, well, i have dreams where i am speaking and being spoken to in spanish. you understand everything so clearly as it's being said; it's like when i'm drunk with a mexican: that's how i dream.

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