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dream

(drēm)

1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

2. A daydream; a reverie.

3. A state of abstraction; a trance: wandering around in a dream.

4. A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration: a dream of owning their own business.

5. A wild fancy or unrealistic hope: He knew that playing for a professional team was only a dream.

6. Informal One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful: Her boyfriend is a dream.

v. dreamed or dreamt (drĕmt), dream·ing, dreams

v.intr.

1. To experience a dream in sleep: dreamed of meeting an old friend.

2. To daydream: sat there dreaming during class.

3. To have a deep aspiration or hope: dreaming of a world at peace.

4. To regard something as feasible or practical: I wouldn't dream of skiing on icy slopes.

v.tr.

1. To experience a dream of while asleep: Did it storm last night, or did I dream it?

2. To conceive as possible; imagine: We never dreamed it would snow so much.

3. To have as an aspiration or hope: She dreams that she will become a pilot.

4. To pass (time) idly or in reverie.

Phrasal Verbs:

dream on Informal

Used in the imperative to indicate that a statement or suggestion is improbable or unrealistic.

dream up

To invent; concoct: dreamed up a plan to corner the market.

[Middle English drem, from Old English drēam, joy, music; akin to Old Saxon drōm, mirth, dream.]

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Noun	1.	dreaming - imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" dream imagination, imaginativeness, vision - the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery - absentminded dreaming while awake woolgathering - an idle indulgence in fantasy
	2.	dreaming - a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" dream sleeping - the state of being asleep imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" nightmare - a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream wet dream - an erotic dream (usually at night) accompanied by the (nocturnal) emission of semen

Translations

sognante

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This, as you have already discerned, violates the first law of dreaming, namely, that in one's dreams one sees only what he has seen in his waking life, or combinations of the things he has seen in his waking life.

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In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream-- Lingering in the golden gleam-- Life, what is it but a dream?

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Some will even interpret the very dream they are dreaming; and only when they awake do they know it was a dream....

Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

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"I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true.

We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other -- and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now."

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"I know how you feel jest now--but if you keep on living you'll get glad again, and the first thing you know you'll be dreaming again--thank the good Lord for it!

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My dreams are all I have, so I go far in them, even to dreaming that you are my wife.

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Dreaming about your teeth falling out, for example, has been interpreted as vanity, powerlessness, or fear of death.

In Dreams: How Your Dreams and Nightmares May Give You Insight Into Your Waking Life: Dream analysis is much more about what you associate with your dreams rather than what those sleeping stories symbolize

Dreaming is another name for planning by the leader or manager that permits the opening of new vistas of possibilities.

Doers achieve what dreamers conceive

Some of the first dream-research discoveries were made by nontraditional outsiders; the scientist who first documented REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, and who connected REM cycles to dreaming, is largely forgotten.

WHY WE DREAM

This article will explore the current theories, causes, and applications of dreaming. Fast facts on dreams We may not remember dreaming, but everyone is thought to dream between 3 and 6 times per night It is thought that each dream lasts between 5 to 20 minutes.