daydreams
Mind's idle wanderings
Daydreams are pleasant, idle fantasies indulged while awake—the mind wandering away from present tasks toward imagined scenarios: She stared out the window, lost in daydreams.
As a verb, to daydream is to engage in such reverie: He daydreamed through the entire meeting.
The word implies inattention to reality, sometimes with a note of impracticality.
Abstracted, pleasant daydream
- distractionThing diverting one's attention
- respiteShort pause from hardship
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
drift · detachment · withdrawal · abstraction · absence · inattention · wool-gathering · disengagement
Faculty for forming ideas
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- musingReflective contemplation
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- visualizationForming mental or graphical images
ideation · ingenuity · innovation · brainstorming · mind-wandering · vision · possibility · invention
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- bittersweetWistful yet warm
hiraeth · wistfulness · pining · sentimental · memory · past · childhood · homesickness
reverie
Abstracted, pleasant daydream
- distractionThing diverting one's attention
- respiteShort pause from hardship
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
wandering · drift · detachment · withdrawal · abstraction · absence · inattention · wool-gathering · disengagement · fugue
imagination
Faculty for forming ideas
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- musingReflective contemplation
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
visualization · ideation · ingenuity · innovation · brainstorming · mind-wandering · vision · possibility · invention · originality
longing
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
bittersweet · hiraeth · wistfulness · pining · sentimental · memory · past · childhood · homesickness · regret
castle
Fortified medieval residence
- unicornMythical one-horned horse
- mermaidFish-tailed ocean woman
- dragonLegendary fire-breathing reptile
wizard · fairy · magic · enchantment · adventure · romance · fame · glory · heroics · make-believe
- Altered Realityillusions, visions, mirages, hallucinations, nightmares
- relaxationrelax, naps, break, rest, calm
- dreamsnightmare, dreaming, nightmares, lucid dream, lucid dreaming
- daydreamingfantasies, deep in thought, musings, reverie, dreamy
- imaginary thingsfantasies, imaginary friends, imaginary worlds, make-believe, make believe
- imaginationimagination, fantasies, fantasy, creative thinking, fancy
daydreamsconcentrates
Directs sustained attention
focuses · pays attention · attends · locks in · applies oneself