Catherine Russell
Yesterday 2 friends divulged that they only ever dream in pictures. No dialogue. This astonished me. But maybe it’s more common than I know. Do people speak in your dreams?
May 29, 2023 at 5:45amWeb
Show threadKayrynMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 They do. Or then it’s understood that they’re saying something, even if I don’t “hear” it. Sometimes it’s hard to remember.
I think it’s the epic dreams, the ones that are so detailed and complicated they’re like all three Lord of the Rings movies together in one night, they are the ones where no direct dialogue is being spoken.
Show threadJenniferMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 yes, I also dream in colour, and sometimes in so much detail I wake up more tired than I went. In my dream last night a farmer told me a joke! What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef!
Show threadJoanna ⚫⚪May 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 yes, and sing. I've sung loads in mine, and played guitar and piano.
Show threadNuddaOz Steph🇭🇲May 29, 2023

@CatherineRussell2 I have never really given it any thought. I know I do dialogue, as I talk in my sleep and I must be talking to somebody I hope. My hubby use to wake me up as I would be screaming out. I don't seem to dream as much now, that I am aware of, as I am on my own with no one to tell me. 😊

Do you dialogue in your sleep that you know of? 😁

Show threadWendy LadyMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 now I don't know. Like maybe my dreams don't have dialogue, but I can sense the intent of what I'm seeing? Like I'm an observer of interactions and my brain is trying to read the scene. But I do talk in my sleep, apparently.
Show threadPiers BeckleyMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 I don’t hear in the same way I hear people in the real world, bbut people do speak; more like telepathy, I guess?
Show threadSarah E BrookMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 yes, I dream where ppl talk
Show threadPauline HMay 29, 2023

@CatherineRussell2

I do dream a lot but can’t honestly say I can recall dialogue. The ones I remember mostly are those where sorrow or fear are prominent but actual words, don’t think so.🤨

Show threadjennyjrMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2
You have some really interesting conversations with your friends, and some really interesting responses here too. I’m not sure how to answer your question though. I don’t remember whether the talking is remembered past conversation or whether I create new conversations too, so I suppose the answer is yes but with conditions!
Show threadLeo Fosse on MastodonMay 29, 2023

@CatherineRussell2

Yes, they speak.

I have been told you can't read in dreams, but I distinctly remember seeing a banner that read

IT'S A PERFECT WORLD, BUT IT'S NOT FOR EVERYBODY

Show threadJenniferMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 out of curiosity were the friends also actors or in the arts? I only ask as curious to what kind of people are saying yes and who is saying no. I’m not in the arts but have a fairly vivid imagination.
Show threadCatherine RussellMay 29, 2023
@J3nn1ferJ good question and I wondered the same. One a scientist, one coder with an engineering background.
Show threadJenniferMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 both fairly analytical jobs. I’m both mathematical and creative, so I don’t know how that fits. Maybe having a small part creative works for me 🤷‍♀️
Show threadTracy T WilsonMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 @J3nn1ferJ B is an engineer, and he said he has conversations in his dreams.
Show threadJenniferMay 29, 2023
@tracytwilson @CatherineRussell2 but is he at least a small bit creative? Maybe that is enough, as it seems to be for me.
Show threadTracy T WilsonMay 29, 2023
@J3nn1ferJ @CatherineRussell2 He’s a huge bit creative. Especially with photography.
Show threadJenniferMay 29, 2023
@tracytwilson @CatherineRussell2 then maybe that is a criteria. Interesting whatever the reason is for some of us being able to and others not being able to speak in dreams.
Show threadSue Vickers-ThompsonMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 Loads of dialogue in mine but pictures as well. Last night I was dealing with trying to get a major culture change in Royal Mail, which I had been involved with in real life, but this time I was largely on my own. Hopeless task so I woke up rather annoyed! While I'm in them, my dreams are very detailed but I usually lose that on waking - not always - but the feelings evoked tend to stay with me - anyone else get that?
Show threadTracy T WilsonMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 @suevickersthompson Yes! I dream in a lot of detail—landscapes, modes of transportation, bright colors, pages and pages of dialogue. And although I’m aware of the richness of detail when I wake, it fades almost immediately, and I’m left with impressions, feelings, and settings.
Show threadCatherine RussellMay 29, 2023
@tracytwilson @suevickersthompson Can you read in your dreams?
Show threadTracy T WilsonMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 @suevickersthompson I don’t know. Maybe? Curious now—I’ll try to find out. Sometimes I can direct them. Can you? And can you consciously change what you’re dreaming?
Show threadSue Vickers-ThompsonMay 29, 2023
@tracytwilson @CatherineRussell2 I think so - certainly there were documents in last night's one. Also think I can direct it a bit to get out of sadness and sorrow etc but not totally. I find dreams fascinating - what your imagination can create!
Show threadNuddaOz Steph🇭🇲May 30, 2023

@CatherineRussell2 @tracytwilson @suevickersthompson I found this on Google because I have never given it a thought about the reading aspect:

Even though you may “see” a text in a dream, it's unlikely for it to actually be written in a language you know or even to exist at all. The things we think we read in our dreams are actually just our own thoughts projected in your subconsciousness, so sadly, you can't read in dreams. 😊

Sorry Tracy if this has burst your reading bubble. 🤫

Show threadTracy T WilsonMay 30, 2023
@NuddaOz @CatherineRussell2 @suevickersthompson That seems consistent. If I have read something in a dream, it would be a sign or a headline or something short. I have no memory of reading texts.
Show threadStacyMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 I do. I have always had vivid dreams that I remember long after waking, and I'm usually talking.
Show threadElaine DaviesMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2
Yes definitely have dialogue!
Show threadTracy T WilsonMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 Oh, yes. Lots of dialogue. And internal monologue, too. And laughter. Sometimes I say things to people I’ve been wanting to say and then don’t remember how I did it when I wake up. Recently I dreamt a whole mystery story at a seaside resort, where we were all worried about a storm cutting us off from the mainland.
Show threadJoanne ParryMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 think mine have conversations.
Show threadFroggieMatronMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 Yes, my dreams are definitely talkies.
Show threadJennyMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 mostly pictures but occasionally sounds and words. Last time someone spoke in my dreams was the night my grandmother died. Last time I heard her voice. My fathers very ill and I smelled his aftershave recently when sleeping. Woke up thinking he’d gone but not yet.
Show threadHeidiMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 Yes. I even dream in different languages. People who have slept in the same room as me have told me I talk in my sleep and sometimes it's in different languages too
Show threadKayrynMay 29, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 @Clavillesen I switched from Finnish to English sometime in my late teens. Even if I dream of my Finnish friends or family, everyone speaks English. 😅
Show threadlisa_ivonneJun 1, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 ...they do!
Show threadMomwoodJun 3, 2023
@CatherineRussell2 yes. People speak in my dreams. Often it’s a disappointment upon waking because the dream has ended. 😌