dream

n

1. vision, nightmare; apparition, will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus, chimera, fairy; phantom, shade, specter, ghost, wraith, incubus, succubus, bugbear; fantasy, phantasm, phantasma, Lit. fantasia, Inf. pipe dream, romance; figment, figment of the imagination, fiction, invention, fabrication; visualization, en-visagement, hallucination, mirage, illusion, delusion; shadow, vapor, nothingness.

2. daydream, castle in the air, castle in Spain, musing; fancy, flight of fancy, whim, whimsy, vagary, crotchet, notion, imagination; conceit, thought, idea, conception, concept; design, plan, scheme; aspiration, goal, aim, mark.

v

3. have dreams, have nightmares, hallucinate; see in a vision, visualize, envisage, rhapsodize, idealize; daydream, stargaze, gaze out the window, fall into reverie, be preoccupied, be abstracted; imagine, fantasize, phantasize, Rare. phantsy; fancy, muse, build castles in the air, suppose, conceive, dream up, conjure up, think.