4th Dimension

下の表現はどういう意味でしょう？英語に直してもらえますか？

四次元（よじげん）にいるような感覚を覚えた。

後は何で「覚える」を使うんでしょう？「漢字を覚える」の「覚える」とは違う意味ですよね。

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[投稿： デイズ]

覚える can also mean "to recollect" or "to feel," right? Maybe it's one of those.

四次元にいるような感覚を覚えた。

I felt as though I were in the fourth dimension.

Hmmm...

[投稿： Tim]

It could be さめる as in "wake up".

So it could mean wake up from the feeling of being in the 4th dimension.

Tim.

[投稿： Tim]

覚える　actually it ends in える so it'll have to be oboeru. I'd say it means to feel.

e.g. 痛みを～　《感じる》feel a pain.

[投稿： Darren]

To be honest a friend did explain this phrase when she used it but I can't remember exactly what she said now. Yes, you are on right lines with 'feeling', though I rarely see 覚える used in this sense.

I believe the meaning was something like 'feeling like being in another world'. Apparently to the Japanese the fourth dimension is not time!

[投稿： はたぽん]

「感覚を覚えた」と「感じた」は同じ意味やけど、実際起りえないようなことが起こってるように「感じた」時に、「感覚を覚えた」って使うと思うよ。

「四次元にいるわけないけど、そう感じた」って。

[投稿： Darren]

はたぽん、
なるほど。いい説明だね。「覚」は色んな意味あるんだね。ありがとう！