dream

a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"

imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"

a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"

a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"

someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"

have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"