dream speech

Nocturnal verbal outburst

Dream speech is the fragmentary, often incoherent talk produced by someone who is asleep or half-asleep.

It can also describe the disjointed, surreal quality of speech within dreams themselves—words that seem meaningful in the dream but nonsensical upon waking: Her dream speech was just mumbled fragments about purple staircases.

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vision · aspiration · hope · equality · justice · March on Washington · Washington · march · podium · rhetoric · oratory · Birmingham · segregation · Lincoln Memorial · August · 1963 · brotherhood · mountaintop

Opposites
communicative intentionality

dream speechprepared remarks

Speech composed beforehand

clear articulation · formal address

Family

dream, speech, dreams, dreamed, dreaming, dreamer, dreamers, dreamy, dreamlike

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