Holly

I'm just wondering, for those of you whose first language is sign, do you dream in sign as well? I mean, I suppose you would, especially if it is your first language. But if you can hear a little, do you have sound in your dreams as well? Or if you are able to hear or speech read and sign, do you dream in both?
Also, and this is particularly for those of you who's first language is sign or asl, when you think do you think in sign? I know for me, when I think about something its kind of like hearing my own voice inside my head going through my thoughts (I hope thats not unusual for hearies LOL). But when sign is your first language, do you think as yourself signing? or a series of concepts? Please be detailed if possible because I am very curious
And please don't take this the wrong way, I am just a little ignorant blonde overweight girl hearie lol!

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DragonYoga

Not an ignorant question! To me, it's the same as asking if I dream in color or black & white.

I talk & hear fine in my dreams, as if I were hearing. I think on only 1 occasion I've dreamed in signs, but other than that one time, I always dream that I'm hearing.

How about everyone else?

As for my thoughts, I think in my voice, too - I think in words, not signs. When I'm "daydreaming" of a story, I see a movie in my head, with occasional phrases of words, like I was mentally writing it down.

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Babyblue

I sign and speak in my dreams but I am also HOH. But I have talked to some of my Deaf friends and they say they signed in their dreams and some of them dreamed of speaking. I am not sure if they actually know what the sounds are but my friend claimed to be able to hear and speak in her dreams.

It is not an odd question, it has been discussed among deaf and hearing people before.

zerodog

Well while I am dream, I shout once a while that scare both my parents. Reason they were scare because they think someone in the house but its from me. I speak like hearing people and they could understand me so clear. While I am awake, I couldn't speak well. My parents think it sorta of like werewolf

Holly

Hey thanks for your answers guys, its interesting to how differently people dream!

GarnetTigerMom

Well, I am hoh, so when I dream I speak and hear what come naturally in the dream. But when I sign it not in my dream, Funny my sister is deaf she said she saw me use asl sign while I was sleeping, so i must have been piss at someone lol.

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Babyblue

I've also seen deafies sign in ASL while they are asleep. People sleep talk in their dreams so why not sleep sign.

PuyoPiyo

Sometimes I was told that I was signing during I was sleeping. Also yupp I do remember I sign during my dream, but mostly I communicate through my mind in my dream, I know it's weird..

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Raykat

Interesting , never thought of this before. I wonder if a dream analyst would interpert a Deaf persons use of sound and speech in dreams as being an unconscience desire to be hearing????

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Jolie77

that's funny. I, too, have seen that reversal behavior when my ex husband's grandfather was a better signer as if he was a fluent signer when he was dreaming. When he's awake, he can sign but he's not a fluent signer.

As for me, When I dream - I sign in my dreams.

Anij

I dream in sign - I'm hoh/d and actually speak most of the day, but I almost always dream in sign (no sound)

Buffalo

I used to sign in my dreams when I was young. Now it is more like telepathy.

A friend in wheelchair asked me that same question because in her dreams, she can walk (never in a wheelchair). She was in a car accident that put her in a wheelchair. Now I wonder about those who was in wheelchair since birth...do they walk (or fly?) in their dreams.

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VamPyroX

I can't really remember what I do in my dreams since I rarely remember what I dream. When I do remember what I dream, I don't really remember what was said... so I can't remember if I was signing or talking.

However, I guess it depends on the individual and how they think. How the mind works... is still one of nature's greatest mysteries.

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LuciaDisturbed

I rarely sign in my dreams...often I find myself speaking and understanding speech. But more often, there is no dialogue in my dreams, everything I do are all actions, no signing or speaking.

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dreamchaser

What an interesting topic. Lots of people talk in their sleep, and they also talk to themselves when they are thinking. My ASL teacher tells me she signs to herself just like I talk to myself. I will ask her is she dreams in ASL. Great question.

Miss-Delectable

I don't seem to recall having signed often in my dreams because I often remember speaking.

As for talking in my sleep, I have been known to.

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Deaf Mortgage

In my dream, I do not sign or speak. It more of telepathy, E.S.P.N. thinking. We speak through our mind and read what other are telling me. I just KNOW what they are telling me without thinking sound or signing. I cant even recall the last time I signed in my own dream. Its all in telepathy mode through out the dream.

Reba

You dream about TV sports?

shel90

I dont recall having used sign in my dreams. Probably cuz ASL is not my first language. Like, Lucia, most of my dreams are actions without signing or speaking.

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NickCameron1031

I am pretty mixed, ASL is not my first language so I thinkit depends on how much I have had to lipread and talk during that day. I guess my brain stays in whatever 'mode' its been in, IDK

Chase

Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Reba, you have the same curse I have: we read way too carefully.


I speak, and I heard some sounds up till seven years ago. I guess as a result I can hear in my dreams. Maybe RayCat is right about unconscious desires. I have lots and lots of dreams with desires, both conscious and unconscious!

Babyblue

Dreams have been known to be the "subconscience" of the mind. Wandering thoughts, and the mind pondering the fantasy world.

I can remember most of my dreams. I often wonder...what they possibly mean.

SkullChick

I always speak and hear like I was hearing in dream and when I was thinking I hear voices talking to me. And I don't know if sign language was my "first" language cuz my school taught me sign and speech at the same time, so... I notice that in my mind and dream I speak perfectly but when I try to talk it sound little funny and I get frustrated because my mouth won't cooperate with my mind
Also someone told me maybe its cuz I think too much about what to do when speaking so I makes miskates instead of totally relax and don't think about it and speak I might can speak perfectly hm good theory but I can't relax! I'm tense type person lol oh well
I've been told this before that I'm tranny I was like "what?" and person said "like you're hearing trapped in deaf body" I thought it was funny, the person said it before I went through CI progress tho and now the person's angry at me thinking I am doing this to "become hearing" :rolleyes:

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Holly

Your answers are all very interesting to read! I think I will start a dream book, when I remember my dreams I will write down whatever I remember!

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Liza

I remember having had a lucid dream, and I used ASL. That was awesome.

GarnetTigerMom

You know what? I agree with you,, I don't see no harm in sign while sleeping lol... as long I don't spill the beans in my dreams LOL

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GarnetTigerMom

Yep I have to agree with you. I read a book on Freud's and he wrote book on dreams too. Out of all theories before his, and all of those today, this is the one that stands out the most. He believed that a dream represented an ongoing wish along with the previous days activities. They may even portray wishes that have been inside us since early childhood. In fact, he believed, every dream is partially motivated by a childhood wish. Another interesting idea was that nothing is made up during a dream and that they are biologically determined, derived completely from instinctual needs and personal experiences. So his theories are pretty interesting. Many of Freud's theories still stand true today, but most of all in the area of defense mechanisms our body uses while we dream. If our minds have been dealing with too much denial, regression, or repression, it causes an internal conflict, a dream in this case, to take place. This prevents us from building up intolerable states of psychological tension in waking life. This is why, if you become too emotional, it actually works to "sleep it off." You can buy Freud's books and he is interesting writer. I am so sure that there are so many writters out there have different views on dreams and how they interpret.

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Oceanbreeze

I'm a hearie. I've had dreams where I'm using ASL. I should note that I know minimal sign and fingerspelling. I can "get by", but I'm far from fluent... Anyway, in the dreams I've had where I was signing, I was completely fluent as if ASL was my first language.

Also, I'm wheelchair bound. I've been disabled from birth and have never walked unaided. In almost all of my dr