Thread: DCs Don't understand me? (They speak in German)

Hi everyone I'm new to the forum but have been lucid dreaming for 3 months now. I've had about 6 lucid dreams but only 2 fully lucid. Anyway I have a problem.

I've only encountered DCs once so far, and they couldn't understand me. I only speak English, so I went up to a group of DCs who were talking. I said "Hello, I'm dreaming!" And they just looked at me. I said hello again. Then one dc turned to the other and they started speaking in German, and then they all laughed. Then one said in a very thick German accent "stupid American, we not speak English". So I left and encountered more DCS walking and noticed that all of them were talking in German. I don't know german, and have never heard much of it. Plus this dream took place in somewhere resembling where I live. Does anyone know why this happens?

Warm Welcome from Germany!

It wasn't me in your dreams - that's for sure.
I think, they spoke something, which sounds like German to you - and English with our classical accent.
But it's not possible to generate a certain language in your dreams, which you don't know irl, too - only the sound of it.
What it all means is another question - congrats on your lucids - keep them coming!
Check out this: http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ay-2014-a.html
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I'm pretty sure it's just something that sounded like German to me... Either way it was a bit frustrating because I had a goal of communicating with dcs. Hopefully in my next lucid dream they speak English.

Funny lol...

Usually DC become dumb when you become lucid... but never heard of something like that!

Congrats on your lucid

Don't really know what piece of advice I should give you. But it would be great if you could manage to remember very much what the characters said. It would be interesting if it was really German and had some meaning.

I had a few experiences related to this topic during my exchange semester in Sydney. If you want you can read up a bit in this thread:
http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...tch-no-ld.html

I'm a native German speaker and my the language in my dreams got mixed up during my time in Australia - also including one dream where a DC didn't understand me, because I was talking German instead of English, but that wasn't a lucid dream...

I also participated in the DC experiment by Tadas more than a year ago, where you had to ask DCs certain questions once you were lucid. The questions were originally in English, but I always asked them in German and got answers in German.

Also don't know what kind of advice I could give you in that situation, really interesting though that it was German, since you have no real connection to that language...

It might not have been German, in the strict sense, but another germanic language. From the perspective of someone speaking only English, it would probably be difficult to distinguish between several different languages, for example German, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Afrikaans, Yiddisch, Icelandic, Faeroese, and then some, and all the more or less unique dialects spoken in northern Europe.

It might not only not have been, it wasn't German, and neither anything other specific.
Think about it - how should an unknown language show up in your dream?
Such an idea makes only sense in the frame of some supernatural mindset - a transfer having taken place - something came into your mind from outside.
And I am most definitively not of such a mindset.
It was just you dreaming, that somebody spoke German - and your mind produced some nonsense language, which sounded like you expect or heard German to sound. I have been asking a question for a TOTM, and a DC took out a pen and wrote something, and I read it - I could read it out loud, but I am sure, it was no actual language at all. It had a bit of a Latin-sheen, and the DC was like - once you learn that language, you will know the answer to your question.
Just typical dream-crypticism - I had no answer to the question, so that's what I got.

I have been spending longer stretches of time in English speaking places - and it always happens at some time, that I switch and start to dream in English too by the way.

Originally Posted by StephL

Think about it - how should an unknown language show up in your dream?
Such an idea makes only sense in the frame of some supernatural mindset - a transfer having taken place - something came into your mind from outside.
And I am most definitively not of such a mindset.

Even with a non-supernatural mindset it is possible to dream of real German: Kryptomnesia, just something you have heared any time in your life. And this is possible like some Simpsons episodes Klick. I remember my cousin's friend in the USA reall loved Rammstein.
So it's difficult to say if the DCs were really talking German or just some German-ish gibberish like this. So it would be interesting to hear / read the original dialogue.

I totally agree with StephL. Maybe you heard some bits and pieces of what you assume German might sound like but any congruence with actual German words would either be coincidental or something you have heard somewhere before without actually knowing it. I have often experienced similar things as well which seem real within the dream but upon waking up just look like a very strange mixture of things that don't seem to make any sense at all.

Anyway... I suppose it comes down to expectation. Expect to fulfill your goals instead of fearing and worrying about another appearance of those annoying DCS. After all the dream is you and as soon as you gain your self-awareness within the dream and become lucid, you should definitely be able to remember your goals and avoid any DCs that don't do as you demand. After all: Only the things that you pay attention to exist in your dreams - so if you just ignore this bunch of supposedly german-sepaking DCs, they will vanish eventually

i remember i have this polish friend and his father came up in a dream and started speaking polish to him, when i woke up i was like "ive only ever heard polish once in my life and it was one sentence" and i concluded it was gibberish being spoken in my dream

In the absense of a precise evaluation of what was said, it is impossible to conclude whether the langauge spoken was gibberish or an actual language presumed unknown to the dreamer. If one believes in Jungs "Collective unconscious", or something of a similar nature, then there is fundamental opportunity to believe in hearing unknown languages in dreams. If one does not subscribe to such theories, then one probably has little opportunity except to believe in the gibberish explanation.