Example, I'm Indonesian. My native language is Bahasa Indonesia. My second (or third... whatever) language is English.

I've never had such dream.

I would be glad to see if there are people did otherwise and interested if they can remember the dream.

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Can't say I have.. I'm a burly bearded pale Irish-like guy, and once I had a dream that I was a little Italian boy dressed all in white, running through a canal-divided white city.. At the end I peeked through a (glassless) window at a woman brushing her hair, who I assumed was my mother.. Strange stuff :)

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I speak four languages, and I've dreamed about speaking in all of them. When I'm awake, I only think in three of them.

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Holy fuck, four? What are they?

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Yes, i had, but it was no real language... In fact, i don't even remember the words: They had a meaning, but i can't recall what did they sound like.

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I have...well mostly because I have always been interested in learning Latin so I once dreamed about ancient Greek and people kept saying the phrases that I knew.

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I had a dream where I was fluent in German (I'm not actually), but I didn't use it or say anything, so I'm not sure if that even counts :p

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All the time...

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In dreams you don't speak any "language" per se I believe. Do you clearly remember talking in your native language? I don't. I just know I'm talking but what language? That I can't say. But I'm from Poland and I talk in English more than in Polish so that would be nothing new to me. I even think in English.

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Certainly. I grew up bilingually (german + hungarian), so most of my dreams were those languages (sometimes only one, sometimes both in a single dream), nowadays it's almost always english, though. I also had dreams were I spoke italian, spanish and russian. (I don't really speak italian, and even in the dream I only knew a few phrases, but everyone else in the dream seemed to speak it perfectly).
Even though I know french, I never had a dream where I spoke it. Dunno why.

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I always dream speaking 2nd language. I am deaf so sign language is my native language. Yet I always dream myself talking english. I think it is the movies I watch that makes me dream that way. I dont know why exactly though.

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I think in English mostly, even while my mother tongue is Vietnamese, because it makes the thoughts more neutral. And yes, I do dream in English sometimes.

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Rarely but from time to time it happens.

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Does thinking count?

I've stopped thinking to myself purely in English. Slowly converting over to Japanese as I'm most exposed to that now. I say most, I'm exposed to 7 different languages constantly at the moment.

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I don't think I ever had a dream completelly in english, at most it was mixed. I should also say I don't really speak english, I just write in it. I never had a chance to practice it by speaking with someone.
Edit: I forgot to mention english is my second language, my native one is spanish.

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I almost always think in english and I daydream a lot. Does that count?

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Not in second or any other language, i roleplay Gordon Freeman in my dreams.

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