daymares
Conscious frightening visions
Daymares are disturbing, intrusive thoughts or vivid anxious episodes that occur while awake—the daytime equivalent of nightmares.
Unlike dreams, they happen during conscious hours, often as unwanted mental images or scenarios of things going wrong: I kept having daymares about the interview.
The term captures that nightmare quality of dread without the sleep.
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- frightSudden intense fear
anxiety · phobia · apprehension · trepidation · alarm · foreboding · paranoia · heebie-jeebies
Imagined or prophetic sights
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
- delusionsFirmly held false beliefs
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- phantomsApparitions, especially illusory
mirages · illusion · derealization · depersonalization · dissociation · surreal · phantasmagoria · specters
Loss of muscle function
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
- suffocatedKilled by airlessness
overpowered · flooded · drowning · shutdown · burnout · collapse · meltdown · spiraling
terror
Extreme, overwhelming fear
fright · anxiety · phobia · apprehension · trepidation · alarm · foreboding · paranoia · heebie-jeebies · unease
visions
Imagined or prophetic sights
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
- delusionsFirmly held false beliefs
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
phantoms · mirages · illusion · derealization · depersonalization · dissociation · surreal · phantasmagoria · specters · distortion
paralysis
Loss of muscle function
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
suffocated · overpowered · flooded · drowning · shutdown · burnout · collapse · meltdown · spiraling · inundated
daymaresdaydreams
Idle waking thoughts
wishful thinking · fantasies · reveries · happy thoughts · pipe dreams