1. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
   "I had a dream about you last night"
   - dreaming 
2. Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
   "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
   - dreaming 
3. A cherished desire
   - ambition, aspiration 
4. A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
   "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
   - pipe dream 
5. A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
   "he went about his work as if in a dream" 
6. Someone or something wonderful
   "this dessert is a dream"

1. Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
   - daydream, woolgather, stargaze 
2. Experience while sleeping
   "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"

Derived forms: dreaming, dreamt, dreams

See also: dream up, dreamer, dreamy, oneiric

Type of: comprehend, conceive of, desire, envisage, fantasy, flawlessness, ideate, imagery, imagination, imaginativeness, imagine, imaging, mental imagery, ne plus ultra, perceive, perfection, phantasy [archaic], reverie, revery, vision

Part of: sleeping

Encyclopedia: Dream, Dream Dream Dream, Interrupted Dream, Fulfilled

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