OFF: languages in dreams (was Re: weirdness!)

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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Steg Belsky
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:27 PM
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> Subject: Re: weirdness!
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 01:21:43 -0600 Patrick Dunn
> <tb0pwd1@...> writes:
> > I once dreamed I was teaching my class Hatasoe.  Strangely enough, there
> > were no errors in what I was teaching -- I've had dreams in Spanish
> > before, and when I remember them I wince at my grammar.  (I always have
a
> > dream in Spanish when I have to urinate, actually -- I'm always asking
> > "donde esta el ban~o!" and no one can understand me because of my
> > accent)
> Hmm...talking about urination and Español, i have a friend who i've known
> since birth who discovered recently that when she becomes drunk, she
> speaks in Spanish much easier than she speaks in English (her native
> language).
Ok, this is not conlang-related, but I had to chime in.
First, I have a friend who, I've heard, once rambled on for hours in German
while drunk. Second, last night I had a dream that I was friends with a
French exchange student, and he called his mom on the phone and wanted me to
say hi to her. But in the dream as in real life, I didn't speak French, and
on top of this I couldn't seem to speak above a whisper however hard I
tried! So I kind of muttered "Allo?" into the phone, but apparently she
didn't hear me because she didn't respond.

Eric Christopherson
raccoon@elknet.net