dream realm
Where slumber wanders
A dream realm is the imaginary world experienced during sleep—the landscape of dreams treated as an actual place one visits.
The term appears in fantasy fiction and spiritual traditions where dreams are portals to other dimensions or states of consciousness: She crossed into the dream realm to confront her fears.
Sometimes used loosely for any dreamlike or surreal mental space.
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
- deep sleepUnconsciousness hard to rouse
- slumberLight, restful unconsciousness
vision · night vision · lucid · ethereal · sleep · wandering · surreal · moonlit · reverie · mind's eye · imagination · twilight · otherworldly · parallel world · drift · mist · floating · liminal
- dreamsnightmare, nightmares, REM sleep, dreamscape, being naked
- Fantasy RealmsNarnia, Middle-earth, Hogwarts, Oz, Neverland
- realmskingdom, domain, Heaven, Hades, Nirvana
- Night MythologyHypnos, Morpheus, Sandman, Erebus, nightmare
- other realmsotherworld, netherworld, spirit world, parallel world, alternate reality
- underworld journeysdescent, Hades, underworld, Greek underworld, Helheim
dream realmwaking life
Conscious daily experience
waking state · conscious awareness · wakefulness · alertness · consciousness
dream realmphysical reality
The material universe
real world · physical world · earthly realm · mortal realm · flesh and blood
dream, realm, dreams, dreamed, dreaming, dreamer, dreamers, dreamlike, dreamy