dream world
Sleep's vivid theater
A dream world is an imaginary realm disconnected from practical reality.
Someone living in a dream world has unrealistic expectations or beliefs: If you think this will be easy, you're living in a dream world.
The term can also describe an idealized fantasy—a place of wishes fulfilled: The resort promised a tropical dream world.
- wonderlandMagical place of marvels
- fantasylandImaginary wishful realm
- dreamscapeImagined realm during sleep
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
- phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
oneiric · magical realism · parallel universe · Morpheus · illusion · reverie · Avalon · imagination · Shangri-La · la la land · collective unconscious · whimsy · mirage · wishful thinking · castle in the air · head in the clouds · paradise · floating
- dream phrasessweet dreams, nightmare, broken dreams, shattered dreams, follow your dreams
- imaginary placesfictional cities, imaginary landscapes, wonderland, enchanted forest, fantasy worlds
- imaginary worldsdreamland, fairyland, wonderland, fantasy realm, fantasy land
- dreamlanddreamscape, sweet dreams, REM sleep, deep sleep, slumber
- dreamsnightmare, nightmares, dreams, lucid dreams, recurring dreams
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
dream worldwaking life
Conscious daily experience
reality · real world · wakefulness · physical world · everyday life
dream worldreality
What actually exists
harsh reality · terra firma · realpolitik · brass tacks · meat and potatoes
dream worldnightmare
Frightening dream causing wakefulness
nightmare world · hellscape · dystopia · hell on earth · horror