Dreaming In Another Language
This follows 4annie's thread, "Getting your languages mixed up".
I am now getting my dreams mixed up in so much as I have now started to dream and talk in Spanish. There am I babbling away, sometimes with my family looking on wondering what I am saying, it's so weird.
What's even worse is my wife asking me in the morning, who the hell's Maria?
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Whenever I wake up from a dream in which I was speaking Spanish I wonder how much of what I was saying was correct. 
I have always found this a fascinating topic. I recently had friends staying at my house who were half Dominican and half Norwegian. They live in the D.R., but spend a lot of time in Norway. They are also fairly fluent in English. When asked this question, one said their dreams were usually in Spanish. The other said it varied. I wondered what caused the difference between these two relatives. I guess I'll never know.
I did read this New York Times article which I found interesting:
In the study, of which she was co-author, 552 Texas college students fluent in both Spanish and English were asked about their language preferences for thinking, dreaming and doing mental arithmetic. The researchers found that 78 percent of those who reported doing mental arithmetic in English said they dreamed in English only, and that 54 percent of those who did mental computations in Spanish said they dreamed in Spanish only.
This was a study dealing with bilinguals but I did find it interesting.
I've had dreams like this, but in real life I'm not as fluent as I am in my dream!
He tenido sueños así, pero en realidad no hablo con fluidez como en mis sueños.
Hey, Eddy. I have heard that when you are dreaming in a language you were learning for a long time it means it became fluent for you. Because it is already in your subcnonscious. 
So I can only say:
¡Felicitaciones!
I have often wondered if this was possible.
My wife tells me that I say "Heidita" in my sleep. Anyways, I have dreams where I'm translating English words first into Spanish, and then into French. I wonder if any multilingual members of SD have the same experience?
I suspect that I dream this because I am not fluent in either of those two languages and I'm still intent on learning them. My guess is that a truly multilingual person would simply "conceptualize" from one language to another without "thinking" from one word to another. I congratulate Eddy et. al. for these dreams 'cuz it means we're engaged in our learning.
My dreams in Spanish tend to be very vivid, realistic and usually I am doing something constructive or worthwhile, such as conversing with persons or getting instructions. Sometimes my dreams in English are like that but less often. English dreams tend to deal more with nightmares!
Sometimes I dream the random "odd" word in Spanish.
'My subconscious is probably too nervous to "dream too much in Spanish" for fear that the subjunctive-police or the incorrectly-used-pronoun police will be hiding just around the (dream) corner .......
When I dream in Spanish I don't know what I am saying. 
