Work, money, love… here are the most frequent dreams of the French (and their meaning)

The dream is the voice of our unconscious. From Freud to Bion, psychoanalysis considers that our dreams convey a personal lesson, linked to our experience. But when we are immersed in the arms of Morpheus, we have common dreams, or which are very similar. According to a survey carried out by Ifopnearly three-quarters of the French dream of their job while seven out of ten admit to having erotic dreams. For the most part (66%), lucid dreams, that is to say in which we are aware of dreaming, take over our nights, while premonitory dreams concern 58% of us.

Work, a major concern

Professional life occupies a prominent place in our nights. Once in a deep sleep, 72% of French women and men often dream of their job. This type of dream would be by far the most common among respondents, all age and gender categories combined, underlines the survey.

According to New dictionary of dreams by Tristan-Frédéric Moir (Editions L’Archipel), dreaming of work can have both positive and negative symbolism. Thus, dreaming of one’s professional daily life can be synonymous with progress and integration into society, as it can signify obsessive neuroses or an absence of affective life.

According to our dictionary of dreams, this theme, frequently found in our dreams, can act as compensation. In other words, these dreams are the possibility of expressing a buried physical desire that we tend to censor. If these dreams did not exist, we would strongly feel a lack and an imbalance, a great frustration making us irritable and aggressive. They are therefore healthy and necessary to reveal an inhibited, culturally forbidden, or repressed drive. Depending on certain details of the dream, there may be other meanings, to be discovered in our dictionary of dreams.

Besides the pleasant dreams, the nights of the French are often restless. If 65% say they suffer from sleep disorders, 72% of them have frequent nightmares. According to the survey, these bad dreams are often represented by accidents, death or bereavement.