Thesaurus: dream

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1. n. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
2. n. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.
3. n. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
4. n. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
5. v. t. To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
6. n. a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
7. n. imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
8. n. a cherished desire
9. n. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
10. n. a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
11. n. someone or something wonderful
12. v. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy