reveries
Minds pleasantly adrift
Reveries are daydreams—pleasant, dreamy states of absorbed thought.
The word suggests being lost in imagination rather than focused on the present: She sat at the window, lost in reveries of her childhood.
A reverie is typically idle and pleasant, distinguished from worry or deliberate planning.
The singular reverie works the same way: His reverie was interrupted by the phone.
Absent-minded indulgence in fantasy
- musingReflective contemplation
- mind-wanderingUnfocused, spontaneous thought
- absentmindednessLack of attention to surroundings
- dreaminessVague, unfocused mental state
stargazing · trance · preoccupation · abstraction · inattention · distraction · drifting · wool-gathering
Sustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
self-reflection · soul-searching · brooding · cogitation · deliberation · self-examination · thoughtfulness · pensiveness
Faculty for forming ideas
- fancyElaborate or decorative
- visionsImagined or prophetic sights
- chimeraUnrealistic fantasy or hybrid
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
hallucination · illusion · enchantment · fanciful · visionary · wonderland · make-believe · imaginings
Bathed in lunar glow
- loversRomantic partners
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- sentimentalExcessively emotional about memories
- dreamyVague and pleasantly distracted
languorous · tender · poetic · amorous · lovelorn · starry-eyed · heartache · yearning
Recalling past experiences
- memoriesStored past experiences
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
sentimentality · melancholy · bittersweet · remembrance · recollection · bygone · homesickness · pining
woolgathering
Absent-minded indulgence in fantasy
- musingReflective contemplation
- mind-wanderingUnfocused, spontaneous thought
- absentmindednessLack of attention to surroundings
dreaminess · stargazing · trance · preoccupation · abstraction · inattention · distraction · drifting · wool-gathering · cloud-cuckoo-land
contemplation
Sustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
rumination · self-reflection · soul-searching · brooding · cogitation · deliberation · self-examination · thoughtfulness · pensiveness · wistfulness
imagination
Faculty for forming ideas
phantasm · hallucination · illusion · enchantment · fanciful · visionary · wonderland · make-believe · imaginings · fairy-tale
moonlit
Bathed in lunar glow
- loversRomantic partners
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- sentimentalExcessively emotional about memories
dreamy · languorous · tender · poetic · amorous · lovelorn · starry-eyed · heartache · yearning · bittersweet
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
wistfulness · sentimentality · melancholy · bittersweet · remembrance · recollection · bygone · homesickness · pining · retrospection
- thoughtsthought, idea, thoughts, ideas, thinking
- reflective writingreflections, meditations, journals, diaries, personal essays
- Rousseausocial contract, Emile, Confessions, noble savage, natural state
- preferencespreferences, prefer, likes, like, liking
- poetry formshaiku, sonnet, sonnets, tanka, limerick
- apparitionsghosts, phantoms, specters, wraiths, shades
reveriesnightmares
Terrifying sleep experiences
night terrors · horrors · anxieties · terrors · intrusive thoughts
reveriesalertness
Active mental awareness
attentiveness · vigilance · concentration · focus · awareness
reveriesconcentration
Sustained single-minded attention
focused attention · deliberation · mental discipline · analytical thinking · problem-solving