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DREAMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
Example:
I had a dream about you last night
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("dreaming" is a kind of...):
imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery (the ability to form mental images of things or events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dreaming"):
nightmare (a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream)
wet dream (an erotic dream (usually at night) accompanied by the (nocturnal) emission of semen)
Holonyms ("dreaming" is a part of...):
sleeping (the state of being asleep)
Derivation:
dream (experience while sleeping)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
Example:
he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality
Synonyms:
dream; dreaming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("dreaming" is a kind of...):
imagination; imaginativeness; vision (the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dreaming"):
air castle; castle in Spain; castle in the air; daydream; daydreaming; oneirism; reverie; revery (absentminded dreaming while awake)
woolgathering (an idle indulgence in fantasy)
Derivation:
dream (have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dream
Context examples:
The researcher said this marine animal could be dreaming, as the different colors are the same camouflage she uses when hunting and eating prey while awake.
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Often, when wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The month may bring you such a large financial bonanza that at times you may wonder if you are dreaming.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Sometimes the languid sea rose over him and he dreamed long dreams; but ever through it all, waking and dreaming, he waited for the wheezing breath and the harsh caress of the tongue.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It first occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep and is characterized by darting eyes, raised heart rates, paralyzed limbs, awakened brain waves and dreaming.
(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)
By the time she came back, Tom had slipped off into the barn; and when she had looked about and searched every hole and corner, and found nobody, she went to bed, thinking she must have been dreaming with her eyes open.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
During this time Holmes spent some of his time smoking and dreaming in the cottage; but a greater portion in country walks which he undertook alone, returning after many hours without remark as to where he had been.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Or else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at his dreams; and then the door of that room would be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the sleeper recalled, and lo! there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My thoughts were back in Sussex, and I was dreaming of the kindly, simple ways of the country, when there came a rat-tat at the knocker, the ring of a hearty voice, and there, in the doorway, was the smiling, weather-beaten face, with the puckered eyelids and the light blue eyes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I left him an excellent mark in the window, and, having warned the police that they might be needed—by the way, Watson, you spotted their presence in that doorway with unerring accuracy—I took up what seemed to me to be a judicious post for observation, never dreaming that he would choose the same spot for his attack.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
