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Dreamtime

Dreamtime

9.0
A quiet time when your mind makes pictures and stories as if asleep
  • noun
  • /ˈdriːmtaɪm/
  • Literature
translation icon : Tiempo de los sueños
  • But when Dee is wrecking up the Dreamtime (Fury), his dialogue contains multiple and repeated variants of the verb "to see/watch/show" ("Show yourself;

Examples

  • As she listened to the gentle waves, she found herself drifting into a peaceful dreamtime filled with vibrant colors and soft whispers.

  • Well, that's an expanded Dreamtime if you will.

  • She'd raised Clay in a world in which dreamtime could hardly be distinguished from the waking state.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • In the twilight, crumpled on his father's shoulder, the baby seemed to slip into a kind of dreamtime.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • During his meditation, he often wandered into a dreamtime, where reality blended seamlessly with imagination.

  • After a long day, she liked to escape into dreamtime, where she could explore fantastical landscapes unhindered by the constraints of reality.

Synonyms

dreaming
vsDreamtime
7 2.8

Thinking about things you want or imagine while you are awake

is a state or period of imagination rather than the act of thinking
dreamscape
vsDreamtime
5 7.7

A scene that feels like being in a dream

is about a period or state of imaginative experience rather than a single scene
dreamworld
vsDreamtime
2 6.6

An imagined perfect place that exists only in dreams

is a state or period of imaginative experience rather than a fixed place
world of dreams
vsDreamtime
1 6.3

A place in your mind where you imagine things

is used poetically or metaphorically to name that same state

How Dreamlike

Dreamtime
  • Literature
9.0
trance
60 7.1
fantasy
112 3.8
reverie
15 7.5
daydream
43 2.6
imagination
717 2.8

Surface Forms

Dreamtime singular
Dreamtimes plural

Morphology

Dreamtime = dream + time (transparent) = dream + time

The meaning 'a period or state of dreaming' follows directly from the clear combination of 'dream' + 'time'.

Etymology

Dreamtime comes from the words dream ('images or stories while sleeping') and time ('a period'), so imagine a special 'time' made of dreams. That's why Dreamtime is used for a peaceful, dream-like period or state where imagination and memory mix.