{"id":34430,"date":"2022-01-25T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=34430"},"modified":"2022-01-17T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T19:27:57","slug":"dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one quite knows what they are or why we have them, but they say you\u2019ve really started to learn a new language when your dreams are in that language. While it doesn\u2019t answer any deep questions about the nature of dreams, a recent IFOP survey does give us some insights into the question \u201c<strong>\u00e0 quoi r\u00eavent les fran\u00e7ais?<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\"><em>What do the French dream about?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34500\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34500\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-350x233.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo CC0 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/fr-fr\/photo\/homme-portant-une-chemise-a-col-rond-imprimee-verte-pendant-son-sommeil-296817\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John-Mark Smith at www.pexels.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Just a dream<\/h3>\n<p>The results of an \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifop.com\/publication\/les-francais-et-les-reves\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Envoi%20aux%20abonns%20Opinion%20-%2015122021&amp;utm_content=Envoi%20aux%20abonns%20Opinion%20-%2015122021+CID_94cb9c0159b184fc87e61c7034a9c30a&amp;utm_source=Campagne%20emailing%20Opinion&amp;utm_term=LES%20FRANAIS%20ET%20LES%20RVES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>[\u00e9]tude Ifop pour Tousaulit.com r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par questionnaire auto-administr\u00e9 en ligne 30 novembre au 1er d\u00e9cembre 2021 aupr\u00e8s\u00a0d\u2019un \u00e9chantillon de 1 009 personnes, repr\u00e9sentatif de la population fran\u00e7aise \u00e2g\u00e9e de 18 ans et plus.<\/strong><\/a> <em>\u00bb<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\">An IFOP study for tousaulit.com conducted via automated on-line survey between November 30th and December 1, 2021 of 1009 people, representing the population of people 18 and older in France.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>give us insights into what is (not) keeping the French up at night \u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-box  normal   \"><a href=\"https:\/\/tousaulit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.tousaulit.com<\/a> (<em>www. \u201ceveryone to bed\u201d . com<\/em>) is a French website that will help you \u201c<strong>Trouvez le matelas qu&#8217;il vous faut gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 nos articles, nos tests, avis et comparatifs.<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"3\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"void(0)\" role=\"button\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-3\">3<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-3\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" data-mfn=\"3\"><em>Find the mattress you need thanks to our articles, tests, opinions, and comparisons<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>While the majority of those surveyed (93%) dream <strong>de temps en temps<\/strong><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"4\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-4\">4<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-4\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"4\"><em>from time to time<\/em><\/span>, \u201c<strong>Les femmes r\u00eavent plus fr\u00e9quemment que les hommes\u2026 et sont davantage sujettes aux cauchemars<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"5\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-5\">5<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-5\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"5\"><em>women dream more often than men \u2026 and are more often subject to nightmares<\/em><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>More than one-third of those surveyed (37%) identified the election of far-right candidat \u00c9ric Zemmour \u201c<strong>comme [\u2026] pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique en 2022<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"6\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-6\">6<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-6\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"6\"><em>to be president of the Republic<\/em><\/span> as among their worst\u00a0<strong>cauchemars.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Parmi les Fran\u00e7ais faisant des r\u00eaves, plus des deux tiers (71%) ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00eav\u00e9 \u00eatre au travail.<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"7\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-7\">7<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-7\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"7\"><em>Among those who dream, more than two thirds (71%) have dreamt about being at work<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>While \u201c<strong>[p]r\u00e8s de la moiti\u00e9 (45%) d\u00e9clare faire autant de r\u00eaves r\u00e9alistes que fantaisistes, [\u2026 p]lus d\u2019un tiers des Fran\u00e7ais (36% de ceux \u00e0 qui il arrive de r\u00eaver) font des r\u00eaves majoritairement r\u00e9alistes, contre tout de m\u00eame un cinqui\u00e8me (19%) qui en font surtout des fantaisistes.<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"8\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-8\">8<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-8\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"8\"><em>close to half (45%) say they are as likely to have realistic dreams as fantastic ones, [\u2026m]ore than a third (36% of those who remember their dreams) have mostly realistic dreams, while almost one-fifth (19%) mostly have fantastic dreams<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<strong>Plus de la moiti\u00e9 des Fran\u00e7ais croient aux r\u00eaves pr\u00e9monitoires (57%, dont 15% qui y croient \u00ab\u00a0tout \u00e0 fait\u00a0\u00bb)<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"9\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-9\">9<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-9\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"9\"><em>More than half of the French (surveyed) believe dreams reveal the future (57%, with 15% believing it \u201ccompletely\u201d)<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Et vous? A quoi r\u00eavez-vous?<\/strong><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"10\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-10\">10<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-10\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"10\"><em>And you? What do you dream about?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A little random vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p>I always find if fun when a new word pops up and often it seems when it does, it does so in <em>pairs \u2026 <\/em>very appropriate in this case. The word is\u00a0<strong>bin\u00f4me\u00a0<\/strong>and it means \u2026 <em>pairs<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Both the new Amazon show <em>Mixte<\/em>,\u00a0about one of the first coed <strong>lyc\u00e9es<\/strong> in France in the 1960\u2019s, and the Netflix series <em>Emily in Paris<\/em>, which despite criticism, especially from the French, about its representation of Paris (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gqmagazine.fr\/pop-culture\/article\/emily-in-paris-la-serie-de-netflix-se-fait-atomiser-par-les-parisiens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the size of apartments, the cleanliness of the city streets, the attractiveness of the typical <strong>Parisien<\/strong><\/a>) and the French (\u201c<strong>personne ne travaille avant 10h30, pause-d\u00e9jeuner de 2,3 ou 4 heures, le b\u00e9ret, les croissants\u2026<\/strong>\u201d<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"11\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-11\">11<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002ec30000000000000000_34430-11\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"11\"><em>no one starts working before 10:30, lunch breaks lasting 2, 3, or 4 hours, berets and croissants \u2026<\/em><\/span>) was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gqmagazine.fr\/pop-culture\/article\/surprise-netflix-annonce-les-saisons-3-et-4-pour-cette-serie-qui-cartonne-dans-le-monde-entier-mais-est-tres-critiquee-pour-son-scenario-et-ses-nombreux-cliches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just renewed for two more seasons<\/a>, feature students doing\u00a0<strong>travail en bin\u00f4me<\/strong> \/\u00a0<em>working in pairs.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"PuThuuAYWf\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/jaime-bien-dormir-i-like-to-sleep-well\/\">J&#8217;aime bien dormir! (I like to sleep well)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;J&#8217;aime bien dormir! (I like to sleep well)&#8221; &#8212; French Language Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/jaime-bien-dormir-i-like-to-sleep-well\/embed\/#?secret=vlIJSgHB0L#?secret=PuThuuAYWf\" data-secret=\"PuThuuAYWf\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"r6UipZWcYU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-what-do-the-french-think\/\">French Culture &#8211; What do the French think<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;French Culture &#8211; What do the French think&#8221; &#8212; French Language Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-what-do-the-french-think\/embed\/#?secret=t9fEafKQlu#?secret=r6UipZWcYU\" data-secret=\"r6UipZWcYU\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul class=\"modern-footnotes-list modern-footnotes-list--show-only-for-print\"><li><span>1<\/span><div><em>What do the French dream about?<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>2<\/span><div>An IFOP study for tousaulit.com conducted via automated on-line survey between November 30th and December 1, 2021 of 1009 people, representing the population of people 18 and older in France.<\/div><\/li><li><span>3<\/span><div><em>Find the mattress you need thanks to our articles, tests, opinions, and comparisons<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>4<\/span><div><em>from time to time<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>5<\/span><div><em>women dream more often than men \u2026 and are more often subject to nightmares<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>6<\/span><div><em>to be president of the Republic<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>7<\/span><div><em>Among those who dream, more than two thirds (71%) have dreamt about being at work<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>8<\/span><div><em>close to half (45%) say they are as likely to have realistic dreams as fantastic ones, [\u2026m]ore than a third (36% of those who remember their dreams) have mostly realistic dreams, while almost one-fifth (19%) mostly have fantastic dreams<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>9<\/span><div><em>More than half of the French (surveyed) believe dreams reveal the future (57%, with 15% believing it \u201ccompletely\u201d)<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>10<\/span><div><em>And you? What do you dream about?<\/em><\/div><\/li><li><span>11<\/span><div><em>no one starts working before 10:30, lunch breaks lasting 2, 3, or 4 hours, berets and croissants \u2026<\/em><\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-350x233.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/25026A88-40A0-44E5-9BFB-97591024C666.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>No one quite knows what they are or why we have them, but they say you\u2019ve really started to learn a new language when your dreams are in that language. While it doesn\u2019t answer any deep questions about the nature of dreams, a recent IFOP survey does give us some insights into the question \u201c\u00e0&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/dreaming\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":34500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,8,13],"tags":[549673],"class_list":["post-34430","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-language","category-vocabulary","tag-les-reves-french-dreams-ifop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34430"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions\/34499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}