a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.

the sleeping state in which this occurs.

an object seen in a dream.

an involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake.

a vision voluntarily indulged in while awake; daydream; reverie.

an aspiration; goal; aim

A trip to Europe is his dream.

a wild or vain fancy.

something of an unreal beauty, charm, or excellence.

to have a dream.

to indulge in daydreams or reveries

He dreamed about vacation plans when he should have been working.

to think or conceive of something in a very remote way (usually fol. by of )

I wouldn't dream of asking them.

to see or imagine in sleep or in a vision.

to imagine as if in a dream; fancy; suppose.

to pass or spend (time) in dreaming (often fol. by away )

to dream away the afternoon.

most desirable; ideal

a dream vacation.

dream up, to form in the imagination; devise

They dreamed up the most impossible plan.

noun

actuality , certainty , existence , fact , reality , substance , truth , realization.

noun

bubble * , castle in the air * , chimera , daydream , delusion , fancy , fantasy , hallucination , head trip , idea , image , imagination , impression , incubus , mental picture , nightmare , pie in the sky * , pipe dream * , rainbow , reverie , specter , speculation , thought , trance , vagary , wraith , ambition , aspiration , design , desire , flight of fancy * , hope , notion , wish , fiction , figment , illusion , phantasm , phantasma , vision , bubble , castle in the air , pipe dream , ideal , cloud-cuckoo-land , fantasia , phantasmagoria , revery , wild conceit

verb

be delirious , be moonstruck , be up in clouds , brainstorm , build castles in air , conceive , concoct , cook up * , crave , create , daydream , devise , envisage , fancy , fantasize , formulate , hallucinate , hanker * , hatch * , have a flash , have a nightmare , have a notion , have a vision , hunger , idealize , imagine , invent , long , lust , make up , picture , pine , search for pot of gold , sigh , stargaze , sublimate , think , think up , thirst , visualize , muse , woolgather , apparition , aspiration , chimera , desire , expectation , fantasy , goal , hallucination , hope , ideal , illusion , image , nightmare , reverie , surreal , trance , vision , wish

phrasal verb

concoct , contrive , devise , fabricate , formulate , hatch , make up , think up