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dreaming

dreaming

9 1.2
Seeing images or feelings in your mind while you sleep
  • noun
  • /ˈdriːmɪŋ/
translation icon : sueño
  • One important problem in studying dream content is the dissociation between dreaming and waking states.
  • lucid dreaming
  • report dreaming

What percentage of dreams do you recall?

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Examples

  • Associations of dreaming and of successful dreaming with estimates of performance are also explored.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Who's been haunting your dreams for the last four years?

  • You want to learn about dreams and dreaming, right?

  • Sleep is good, but dreaming while sleeping is better.

  • After that, you are going to recall your dreams and make up your bed.

  • What percentage of dreams do you recall?

  • Both of these perspectives suggest the possibility that dreaming is associated with athletic performance.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Awakenings from intense dreaming activity, with sweating and headaches, are not uncommon.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The cliff drops off ahead in one plunge against a background of dreaming hills that glitter silver-wet with large stones.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Many people believe that dreaming can help improve their emotional well-being during sleep.

Synonyms

dream
vsdreaming
1.0

Thoughts and images you have while you sleep

is the general ongoing experience rather than a single episode
dreamz
vsdreaming
  • Slang
9.8

Thoughts and images that happen in your mind while you sleep

is the standard term used for the same sleep experience

Antonyms

1.4

The way things really are, not how we imagine or wish

4 4.7

A period when you are not sleeping, often because you cannot fall asleep at night

Surface Forms

dreaming singular
dreamings plural

Morphology

dreaming = dream (transparent) = dream + ing

Productive verbal noun (gerund) formation from the verb 'dream' describing the activity or experience of dreaming during sleep.

Etymology

Dreaming comes from an old English word drēam that meant 'joy' or 'vision'. So dreaming is like a private show in your mind, which is why it now means the images and feelings you see while sleeping.