dream
- noun
- /drim/
- Last night I had a dream and you were in it.
- dreams and nightmares
- wake from a dream
- dreams at night
He starts having bad dreams about the shadow.
- He starts having bad dreams about the shadow.
- There's a there's a child in your dream that says let me go.
- It's a weird like dream state you go into.
- There is the the dream state in sleep.
- At least I was in this dream and I was hiding money.
- I once read an article about the dreams of dying people.
- And I had this dream and he had a brain tumor.
- I just, it was just a bad dream, frankly.
- And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
- We haven't gotten past the sort of psychotic fever dream of the fad thing.
Examples
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But the other night, I had a dream.
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Every night I dreamed of death, dreams that woke me up and left me shaking.
Fiction book (1990) -
You go to bed, you have a bunch of dreams, right?
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I had a dream too.
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You just had a bad dream.
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This morning, all the voices in my dream spoke with one voice.
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He starts having bad dreams about the shadow.
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Various sources refer to the importance of dreams in indigenous spirituality.
Academic text (2017) -
One once told me about a dream he had of a razor sliding between his teeth.
Academic text (1999) -
Last night I had a dream and you were in it.
Synonyms
Thoughts and images that happen in your mind while you sleep
Idioms
Compounds
The idea that anyone in the United States can become successful through hard work
- NSFW
A view that the American dream hides racism and unfair treatment of some groups
- Offensive
A woman in a story who is quirky, free and lively and inspires a man to enjoy life
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dream comes from Old English drēam, which once meant 'joy', and from Old Norse draumr, which meant 'sleep vision'. So think of a dream as a kind of 'joyful vision' that happens while you sleep.