waking dreams
Daydreams while alert
Waking dreams are vivid, dreamlike experiences that occur while conscious—hallucinations, daydreams, or trance states that blur the line between sleep and awareness.
The term describes moments when the mind produces dream-quality imagery or narrative despite being awake: She moved through the day in a waking dream.
It can also refer to aspirations so consuming they feel ever-present: Opening his own restaurant had been a waking dream for years.
- half asleepPartially conscious, nearly dozing
- mind's eyeInternal visualization capacity
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- sleep paralysisTemporary waking immobility
hallucinations · subconscious · phantasmagoria · illusions · lost in thought · liminal · twilight zone · imagination · fantasies · symbolic imagery · pareidolia · trance · visions · threshold · sleep deprivation · drifting · spellbound · meditation
- sleepsleep, sleeping, nap, doze, slumber
- dreamsnightmare, daydream, nightmares, REM sleep, dreamscape
- Altered Realityillusions, visions, mirages, hallucinations, nightmares
- Hallucinationsvisual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucination, auditory hallucination, seeing things
- visionsvisions, apparition, apparitions, divine visions, mystic visions
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
waking dreamsdreamless sleep
Unconsciousness without mental imagery
deep sleep · coma · sharp focus · REM sleep · unconsciousness
dream, awake, awaken, dreaming, dreamer, waking, dreams, daydreaming, wakeful