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dream
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[ noun ] (psychology) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
Synonyms Examples "I had a dream about you last night" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)When a man recognizes a certain experience as the exact pattern of a previous dream , we have an instance of deja_vu , except for the fact that he knows just why the experience seems familiar . One day Maeterlinck , coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream , detailed the ensuing occurrences in_advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified . At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement , suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene , action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier . Freud probably contributed more_than anyone else to the understanding of dreams , enabling us to recognize their equivalents in our wakeful thoughts . However , readers who accept Freud 's findings and believe that he has solved completely the mystery of dreams , should ponder over the following words in his Interpretation_Of_Dreams , Chapter 1 , : `` as_a_matter_of_fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in_any_case , and what_is_more , every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain , nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
Synonyms Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it , Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera . And listening to such a conversation one morning while taking a cup of chocolate in a cafe , Rousseau found himself bathed in perspiration , trembling lest his authorship become known , and at_the_same_time dreaming of the startling effect he would make if he should proclaim himself suddenly as the composer . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Geneva , instead of becoming the City_of_God , as John had dreamed , had in the two years since he had been there , continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)The Old_Man 's son threw himself down , belly first , upon a concrete step , taking_in the coolness of it , and dreaming of the day he would be rich . Related terms imagine think_up idealist reverie daydreamer lotus-eater escapist |
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[ verb ] experience while sleeping
Examples "She claims to never dream" "He dreamt a strange scene" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' . Most psychiatrists dismiss these instances of that weird feeling as the deja_vu ( already seen ) illusion , just as they dismiss dream previsions as coincidences . But these are dreamed in original action , in some particular continuity which we do n't remember having seen in real_life . Dr._H._V._Hilprecht , Professor of Assyrian at the University_of_Pennsylvania , dreamed that a Babylonian priest , associated with the king Kurigalzu , ( 1300 B.C. . ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel , gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic , and corrected an error in its identification . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)He was only dreaming . |
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[ noun ] imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
Synonyms Examples "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)At_the_same_time the multiple transvestitism involved - the fat man as girl and as baby , as coquette pretending to be a baby - touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby 's , upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a cherished desire
Synonyms Examples "his ambition is to own his own business" Used in print (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)In_spite_of the dreams of the host for oneness in the group , the * * f incoming messages for each guest overload his receiving_system beyond comprehension if N exceeds about six . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)The long road that had taken liberals in_this country into the social religion of democracy , into a worship of man , led logically to the Marxist dream of a classless society under a Socialist State . (Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)And Alexander sobbed like a girl for the dreams he had had , and he felt no shame . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)He had almost forgotten them , although they had played such an important part in his early dreams . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
Synonyms Examples "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Like Eliot , in my fantasies , I had a proud bearing and , with a skill that was vaguely continental , I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits , would guide her gently to the night 's climax which , in my dreams , was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep , moist kisses burning with love . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
Examples "he went about his work as if in a dream" Related terms |
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