dreamt

Had nocturnal visions

Dreamt is a past tense and past participle of dream, used interchangeably with dreamed.

British English favors dreamt; American English tends toward dreamed, though both are correct everywhere.

I dreamt of flying last night.

She never dreamt it would end this way.

aspiration

ambition

Desire for achievement

goalsIntended end results
hopeDesire for good outcomes
desireIntense wanting

wish · longing · yearning · vision · fantasy · ideal · aspiring · hopeful · wistful · someday

sleep

slumber

Light, restful unconsciousness

REMAcronym for dreaming phase
nightDark hours daily
bedtimeDesignated hour for retiring

pillow · sleeping · restless · vivid · lucid · nightmare · deep · fitfully · peacefully · woke

vision

apparition

Visible supernatural manifestation

specterGhostly threatening presence
visitationOfficial or formal visit
ghostlyResembling a specter

haunting · revelation · glimpse · figure · presence · ethereal · vivid · mysterious · otherworldly · prophetic

subconscious

psyche

Total mental life

unconsciousNot awake or aware
mindSeat of consciousness
FreudianOf unconscious-mind theory

Jungian · archetype · repressed · symbolism · interpretation · meaning · latent · manifest · analysis · hidden

premonition

prophecy

Foretelling of future events

omenProphetic indicator
forewarningNotice of future trouble
portentSign of future calamity

vision · foresight · prophetic · foreboding · warning · presage · foretold · seer · oracle · harbinger

fantasy

imagination

Faculty for forming ideas

fantasticalExtravagantly unreal or imaginary
magicalPossessing supernatural power
strangeUnusual or unfamiliar

bizarre · surreal · whimsical · impossible · flying · falling · otherworldly · ethereal · fanciful · mythical

Categories

past tensewent, was, were, had, got
spellingscolour, color, favour, favor, honour
grammar debatesirregardless, ain't, split infinitive, singular they, could of
old past tensesspake, begat, drave, clave, gat
Old Spellingsaether, connexion, magick, shew, shoppe

Opposites

consciousness state

dreamtwoke

Past tense of rising from sleep

awakened · roused · stirred · waked

imaginative engagement

Never imagined before

experienced · lived · witnessed · reasoned · calculated

imagination vs. reality

dreamtexperienced

Having practical knowledge gained

lived · realized · enacted · achieved · accomplished

Phrases

sweet dreamsNighttime farewell blessing
bad dreamFrightening sleep vision
dream onDismissive of unlikely hopes
dream come trueDesired outcome finally happening
dream upInvent through imagination
dream jobPerfect occupation imagined

Family

dream, dreamy, dreaming, dreamer, daydream, dreams, daydreaming, dreamed, dreamland

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