dream
The definition of a dream is an image, thought or fantasy that happens in the mind while a person is sleeping or relaxing.
Facts About Dreams
- Sleep is divided into two main blocks: rapid eye movement sleep (known as REM), and non rapid eye movement sleep (Non-REM).
- REM sleep is only a small part of your sleep, usually taking up only about twenty percent of your overall sleep. Dreams almost always only occur during REM sleep.
- During REM dreaming, serotonin levels are very low and acetylcholine levels are extremely high. This chemically explains why you have trouble remembering your dreams when you wake up—they weren’t encoded in your short term memory.
- Sigmund Freud proposed that dreams were a combination of our daily activities, and suppressed wishes.
- Carl Jung proposed the dreams were a combination of personal experience.
- Alfred Adler, believed that dreams were a problem solving device.
An example of a dream is images of flying while asleep.
Dream is defined as a vision of hope.
(noun)If you hope some day to become a doctor, this is an example of a dream.
See dream in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc. passing through a sleeping person's mind
- a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; daydream; fantasy; reverie
- the state, as of abstraction or reverie, in which such a daydream occurs
- a fond hope or aspiration
- anything so lovely, charming, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike
Origin: ME dream, dreme: form < OE dream, joy, music < IE base *dher-, to buzz, hum (> dorbeetle); sense < ON draumr, akin to Ger traum, Du droom < IE base *dhreugh-, to deceive
intransitive verb dreamed or dreamt , dreaming
- to have a dream or dreams
- to have daydreams
- to think (of) as at all possible, desirable, etc.: I wouldn't dream of going
transitive verb
- to have (a dream or dreams)
- to have a dream of
- to spend in dreaming: with away or out
- to imagine as possible; fancy; suppose
adjective
See dream in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
- A daydream; a reverie.
- A state of abstraction; a trance.
- A wild fancy or hope.
- A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration: a dream of owning their own business.
- One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful: Our new car runs like a dream.
- To experience a dream in sleep: dreamed of meeting an old friend.
- To daydream.
- To have a deep aspiration: dreaming of a world at peace.
- To regard something as feasible or practical: I wouldn't dream of trick skiing on icy slopes.
- To experience a dream of while asleep: Did it storm last night, or did I dream it?
- To conceive of; imagine.
- To pass (time) idly or in reverie.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English drem
Origin: , from Old English drēam, joy, music
Origin: ; akin to Old Saxon drōm, mirth, dream
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