daymare
Conscious disturbing vision
A daymare is a frightening or distressing experience that occurs while awake, analogous to a nightmare but happening during waking hours.
The term describes episodes of intense anxiety, dread, or disturbing visions that intrude on consciousness: The meeting became a daymare when everything went wrong at once.
It can also describe a waking state that feels as surreal or horrifying as a bad dream.
Intense anticipatory fear
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- frightSudden intense fear
- alarmUrgent warning signal
terror · trepidation · apprehension · fear · phobia · shock · creepiness · haunt
Troubled mental state
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- tensionStretched or strained state
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
agitation · restlessness · edginess · panic · foreboding · misgiving · angst · disquiet
Ability to see
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
illusion · figment · chimera · phantom · wraith · eidolon · doppelganger · specter
Force upon contact
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
- inundatedOverwhelmed by quantity
- overpoweredExcessively dominant or conquered
overcome · overload · besieged · flooded · exhausted · strained · overburdened · overwrought
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
alarm · terror · trepidation · apprehension · fear · phobia · shock · creepiness · haunt · ominous
worry
Troubled mental state
nervousness · agitation · restlessness · edginess · panic · foreboding · misgiving · angst · disquiet · rumination
vision
Ability to see
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
delusion · illusion · figment · chimera · phantom · wraith · eidolon · doppelganger · specter · ghost
pressure
Force upon contact
overpowered · overcome · overload · besieged · flooded · exhausted · strained · overburdened · overwrought · consumed
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
daymaredaydream
Conscious fantasy while awake
reverie · fantasy · waking dream · flight of fancy · woolgathering