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I will be watching a movie or show in a different language with subtitles, then think back on it a couple days later and everything the people say is in English! Same voice and everything, except it's in English. Am I the only one?
No idea. But for me english is not my first language and people don't speak english in my country at all except from the occasional mixing in english words here and there sometimes but I only think in english and remember things in english.
Our brains do some strange shit. We all like to believe that our memories are accurate recordings of things that actually happened, but experiments have shown time after time that this isn't true, and we should never entirely trust our memories.
I've experienced something kinda similar to what you describe.
I grew up in the States, moved to the UK in the late seventies and lived here around thirty years, then I moved to Italy for seven years before returning to the UK a few years ago. As most people know, you drive on the left in the UK, but on the right in the USA and in Europe.
When I was living in Italy and after I'd made the mental shift that meant I didn't have to constantly remind myself to drive on the right, I suddenly realised that if I visualised driving on a route in the UK that I'd used almost every day for many years, I saw myself from the perspective of driving on the right. Now that I'm back in the UK, if I visualise driving on a very familiar route in Italy, I have to make a conscious effort to put myself on the right side of the road.
I'm bilingual and I sorta understand what u mean. I'll think to myself in English after having seen it in Spanish.