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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
   "his dream is to own his own business";
   - 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: dreamt, dreams, dreaming

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, Extinguished