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Originally Posted by Lightrail11
Although I only had some rudimentary Spanish classes and am certainly not fluent, when I was in hospital recovering from a traumatic brain injury I was told (I don’t remember much about the month I was in ICU) that I would occasionally speak Spanish to the nurses, and that my Spanish was correct and understandable. This likely comes from storage in the procedural part of implicit memory, which is accessed separately from explicit memory.
All that said I would be very skeptical of stories of people speaking languages that have never been exposed to. Language has to be stored somewhere in memory to be accessed, whether that access is performed consciously or not.
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Sometimes when I am first coming awake in the morning, mid-way between sleep and alertness, I will hear parts of whatever I heard in a recent class (regardless of the subject). The hearing is taking place inside my head; it isn't really a voice so much as an impression, but it seems to be my voice, and I am repeating what I know I heard my professor say (not paraphrasing). What it tells me is that I do indeed have pertinent information stored in my brain, if only I could tap into it later, when fully alert. Your comment about speaking correct Spanish made me think of this; since you had a class, you were taught correct Spanish; just as I have been taught the formulae, facts, etc. that I later 'hear' when I am half-awake in the morning.