dreaming

dreaming
    n 1: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in
         a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: {dream},
         {dreaming}]
    2: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
       sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: {dream},
       {dreaming}]
    

Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed} (dr[=e]md) or
   {Dreamt} (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS.
   dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See {Dream}, n.]
   1. 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.
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   2. 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.
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            Here may we sit and dream
            Over the heavenly theme.              --Keble.
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            They dream on in a constant course of reading, but
            not digesting.                        --Locke.
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78 Moby Thesaurus words for "dreaming":
      Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded,
      absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness,
      abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building,
      charmed, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy,
      depth of thought, dream, dreamery, dreamful, dreamfulness,
      dreaminess, dreamlike, dreamlikeness, dreamy, dreamy-eyed,
      dreamy-souled, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, enchanted, engrossed,
      engrossment, entranced, fantasy, fantasying, faraway,
      fit of abstraction, half-awake, in a reverie, in a trance,
      in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning,
      moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy,
      napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pensiveness, pipe dream,
      pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, reverie,
      somewhere else, spellbound, spelled, stargazing, study, taken up,
      trance, tranced, transported, unconscious, woolgathering,
      wrapped in thought