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Dreaming   /drˈimɪŋ/   Listen
Dreaming

noun
1.
Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake.  Synonym: dream.
2.
A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.  Synonym: dream.



Dream

verb
(past & past part. dreamt; pres. part. dreaming)
1.
Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy.  Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather.
2.
Experience while sleeping.  "He dreamt a strange scene"



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"Dreaming" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chafis One and Two were asleep at the moment, dreaming wistful dreams of conical Ciriimian cities spearing up to a soft and plum-colored sky. The Zid raged into their communal rest cell, smashed them down from their gimbaled sleeping perches and, with the ravening blood-hunger of its kind, devoured them ...
— Traders Risk • Roger Dee

... women. And they have to wait upon the braves or else, when the braves are off fur hunting, they have to plant the crops and catch fish, and even hunt and mend tents, and do such hard work. All that is no delight like dreaming on the moss in the woods, and talking to the birds, and breathing the fragrance all about, and having rushes of delight sweep over you like a waft from the beautiful heaven above. Oh, why should I marry; to think of some one else that I do not ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas

... a woman's pen was written by Miss Caroline B. Le Row, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a teacher of elocution, and the writer of many charming stories and verses. It was suggested by a study in butter of "The Dreaming Iolanthe," moulded by Caroline S. Brooks on a kitchen-table, and exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia. I do not remember any other poem in the language that rings so many changes on a single word. It was published first in Baldwin's Monthly, ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... have rarely ventured to make their story turn on a sentimental love affair. Certainly in real life the wife is taken as a helpmate, or in plain language a worker, rather than as a companion, and the mother-in-law leaves her very little time to indulge in fruitless dreaming. ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... Synesius placed dreaming above all methods of divining the future; he thought it the surest, and open to the poor and ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller


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