dreaming
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈdriːmɪŋ/
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ensoñación
- And dreaming is a luxury I've never permitted in my company.
- lucid dreaming
- day dreaming
- connections made by dreaming
And I've come to realize that dreaming is a gift.
- And I've come to realize that dreaming is a gift.
Examples
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I have a habit of dreaming with my eyes open.
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Instead, I argue that dreaming is a kind of spontaneous imagination.
Academic text (2016) -
And here in my room, dreaming about you and me.
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We are, we are dreaming in the dark.
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How can we tell the difference between dreaming and waking life?
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And I've come to realize that dreaming is a gift.
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Dreaming is wonderful, but it won't get you closer to what you want.
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Dreaming is sometimes continuous with waking imagination, as in the case of vivid daydreaming.
Academic text (2016) -
He spends hours in dreaming, imagining his future adventures around the world.
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Many writers engage in dreaming to inspire their stories and characters.
Synonyms
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7.5
A pleasant daydream when you are lost in thought
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3.5
A thought or picture you make in your mind
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3.2
Thinking about pleasant things while not paying attention
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5.1
Making a clear picture in your mind of something, often of the future
A mental picture of a plan or future result
Lost in daydreams and not paying attention
Antonyms
How Imaginative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dreaming also came to mean 'thinking of wishes' or imagining while awake, because people used the same word for sleep visions and for hoped-for visions. A helpful way to remember it is to think of dreaming as letting your mind make pictures of things you want or imagine.