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Dream, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.]
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.
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.
Here may we sit and dream
Over the heavenly theme. --Keble.
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. --Locke.
dream
n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dreaming]
2: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
business" [syn: ambition, aspiration]
3: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dreaming]
4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the
opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor
of the universe" [syn: pipe dream]
5: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release
from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
6: someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: daydream, woolgather,
stargaze]
2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He
dreamt a strange scene"
[also: dreamt]