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"DREAMS" is a plural of: dream. |
Date "DREAMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usual stream of consciousness of the waking state. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dreaming is an imaginative process of the mind that occurs during REM in sleep. Forms of dream include the frightening or upsetting nightmare and erotic dreams with sexual images and nocturnal emission.
Dreams are, according to some psychologists (most famously, Sigmund Freud), rich in symbolism and offer a window into the unconscious mind. Interpretation of dreams is a regular part of psychoanalysis. It is said that one may control the course and content of dreams by a technique called lucid dreaming. However, this could distract one from the dream-matter provided by the unconscious mind.
Most mainstream academic psychologists do not believe that dreams have a coherent meaning. Carl Jung's view of dreams was more precise than this: that dreams have meanings, but their meanings are idiosyncratic, complicated, and not susceptible to more than vague, uncertain, and sometimes superficial interpretations. In particular, interpretation needs to be based on the thoughts of the individual dreamer, and not on any formula.
The art of interpreting dreams from a proto-pyschological point of view is known as oneiromancy. The usage of this now obselete word occurs at the conclusion of Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 Discourse The Garden of Cyrus-
A dream is also a long-term hope, e.g. in I have a dream. In advertising lotteries it is pointed out that one's dream(s) can come true.
- Besides Hippocrates hath spoken so little, and the Oneirocritical Masters have left such frigid interpretations from plants that there is little encouragement to dream of Paradise itself.
The term is also used to ridicule someone who has hopes for something unlikely, or mistakenly believes something. This usage is especially associated with the term "pipe dream" which literally refers to a fantasy induced by opium.
See also Hallucination
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dreaming."
Synonym: DREAMSSynonym: Dreaming. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Mind's eye; "such stuff as dreams are made of". |
Prediction | Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy. |
Unsubstantiality | Shadow; phantom;(fallacy of vision); dream; (imagination); ignis fatuus; (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of "; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision "; mockery. |
Phrase: there's nothing in it; " an ocean of dreams without a sound". | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DREAMS |
| English words defined with "DREAMS": 3D ♦ bear away, bear off, boring ♦ carry away, carry off, condensation ♦ deadening, Dreamful, dreamland, dreamless, dreamworld, dull ♦ follow ♦ hallucinatory, ho-hum ♦ irksome ♦ Morphean, Morpheus ♦ never-never land ♦ oneiric, Oneirocritic, Oneirocritical, Oneirocritics, Oneiromancy, Oneiroscopist, Oneiroscopy ♦ paramnesia, posttraumatic stress disorder, prince charming, PTSD, pursue ♦ shattered, slow, smoke, Somnial, Somniatory, surrealism ♦ take away, tattered, tedious, three-d, tiresome ♦ unfulfilled, unrealised, unrealized ♦ wearisome, wishfully. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DREAMS": Somniatory. (references) |
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Screenplays | I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) A place rich with all the strange beauty of your nighttime dreams. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) The hideousness of that foot will haunt my dreams forever (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet (Rounders; writing credit: David Levien and Brian Koppelman.) | |
Lyrics | In my sweet dreams (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply) Sweet dreams are made of this (Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This); performing artist: Eurythmics) Then your dreams fall apart at the seams (The Look Of Love; performing artist: ABC) Our hopes and dreams are out there somewhere (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith) It's meeting the man of my dreams (Ironic; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Clever | Goals are dreams with deadlines. (references; author: unknown) Quantum mechanics: the dreams stuff is made of. (references; author: unknown) You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than dreams. (references; author: unknown) I had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. (references; author: unknown) There is some consolation in the fact that even if your dreams haven't come true, neither have your nightmares. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wet Dreams (1974) Harry O: Such Dust As Dreams Are Made On (1973) Dark Dreams (1971) The Exotic Dreams of Casanova (1971) Anomalies: A World of Dreams (1970) | |
Song Titles | Dreams (performing artist: The Cranberries) Dreams (performing artist: Gabrielle) These Dreams (performing artist: Heart) Shattered Dreams (performing artist: Johnny Hates Jazz) Sweet Dreams (performing artist: La Bouche) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This youngster wanted to grow up and be just like Dad. An Eskimo toddler dreams of hunting on the Bering Sea with his father. F&WS 1166. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | ... an opium addict in Iran lights his pipe of dreams. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | "There stalked a multitude of dreams." / [Federico] Castellon. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | If dreams came true. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Time makes gold-seekers' dreams come true. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pleasant dreams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mid-day dreams. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pipe dreams, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dreams of a rarebit fiend. "Why, dearie! They look like horns to me! Huh!". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | In the land of wonderful dreams. "Come, your Majesty. We'll return to the ship!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hunter of dreams" by Filip Schneider Commentary: "On the hunt." | "Field of Dreams" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Sunflower fields, late August." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. |
Diana Scharf Hunt | Goals are dreams with deadlines. |
Henry David Thoreau | Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Keep true to the dreams of your youth. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love. |
Matthew Prior | Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. |
Pindar | Men are the dreams of a shadow. |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes | If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? |
Zadoc Rabinowitz | A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I shall certainly avail myself of this freedom, and feel the more right to do so because any private ambitions I may have cherished in my younger days have been satisfied beyond my wildest dreams. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then he resumed this monotonous and dismal walk, which disturbed the man asleep beneath him in his dreams, and wakened him out of his sleep |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The children drowsed with the music and went into the tents to sleep, and the singing came into their dreams. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I slept some hours, but perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped |
Sonnets | William Shakespeare | All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. |
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Health | When people awaken during REM sleep, they often describe bizarre and illogical tales — dreams. (references) | |
The most commonly reported minor side effects include nausea, dizziness, difficulty sleeping, and vivid dreams. (references) | ||
They soon realized that the strange, illogical experiences we call dreams almost always occur during REM sleep. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Haidar's book had been the subject of student demonstrations in May 2000. On January 6, the Prime Minister dismissed several Ministry of Culture officials following protests by Islamist members of the People's Assembly regarding three allegedly pornographic books ("Sons of Romantic Sins," by Yasser Sha'aban, "Forbidden Dreams," by Mahmoud Hamed, and "Before and After," by Tawfik Abdel Rahman) published by the Ministry. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient. This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall! May life be to them a succession of hurts; May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts; May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones; May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest; May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores! Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin! Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. K.Q. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Corporate America is responsible for the retirement dreams of the citizenry, not the citizens themselves. |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As we measure what can be done, we shall promise only what we know we can produce, but as we chart our goals we shall be lifted by our dreams. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Rebuilding the old dreams of justice and liberty, and country and community. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | My grandchildren don't have to do that, and won't have the bad dreams children once had in decades past. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Giving people a chance to live their dreams is an American issue. |
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| "DREAMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.68% of the time. "DREAMS" is used about 2,234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 94.68% | 2,115 | 4,111 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.11% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.21% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,234 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DREAMS": answer to one's dreams ♦ dreams and reality ♦ have wet dreams ♦ lost in dreams ♦ sweet dreams ♦ sweet dreams to you! ♦ without dreams. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DREAMS": day-dreams, wet-dreams. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dreams.com sleazy | 31 |
cocktail dreams.com | 15 |
dreams.com inmost | 8 |
dreams.net iridescent | 5 |
dreams.com wildest | 2 |
dreams.mp3 shattered | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "DREAMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | zasnìný (dreamy, faraway, lost in dreams), mít poluci (have wet dreams). (various references) | |
Danish | stereotype droemme (stereotyped dreams). (various references) | |
Finnish | unikirja (book of dreams), unenselitys (interpretation of dreams). (various references) | |
French | rêves stéréotypés (stereotyped dreams). (various references) | |
German | träumt, phantasiert (fantasises). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szépet álmodik (have beautiful dreams), álmok világa (land of dreams). (various references) | |
Italian | sogna. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 幻夢 (phantasms, visions), 夢幻 (fantasy, visions). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むげん (fantasy, infinite, visions), ゆめまぼろし (fantasy, visions), げんむ (phantasms, visions). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamsdray.(various references) | |
Romanian | vise plãcute (sweet dreams, sweet dreams to you), somn uşor (good night and sweet repose, sweet dreams). (various references) | |
Russian | царство грез (land of dreams). (various references) | |
Spanish | sueños (dreaminess). (various references) | |
Swedish | drömmar. (various references) | |
Turkish | tatlı rüyalar (pleasant dreams, sweet dreams). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai emnhsqh iwshf twn enupniwn wn eiden autoV kai eipen autoiV kataskopoi este katanohsai ta icnh thV cwraV hkate |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Recordatusque somniorum quae aliquando viderat ait exploratores estis ut videatis infirmiora terrae venistis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And recordid of the sweuen that sumtyme he sawy, seith to hem, Aspies ye ben, ye ben comen that ye myyten se the febler thingis of the loond. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Ioseph remembred his dreames which he dreamed of them and sayde vnto them: ye are spies and to se where the lande is weake is youre comynge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land have ye come. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahinumdum si Jose sa mga damgo nga iyang gidamgo mahitungod kanila, ug siya miingon kanila: Kamo mga tiktik; mianhi kamo aron sa pagtan-aw nga walay salipud ang yuta. |
| Croatian | Josip se sjeti snova što ih je o njima sanjao. I reèe im: "Vi ste uhode! Došli ste da izvidite slaba mjesta ove zemlje." |
| Danish | Da kom Josef de Drømme i Hu. han havde drømt om dem; og han sagde til dem; "I er Spejdere, I kommer for at se, hvor Landet er åbent!" |
| Dutch | Toen gedacht Jozef aan de dromen, die hij van hen gedroomd had; en hij zeide tot hen: Gij zijt verspieders, gij zijt gekomen om te bezichtigen, waar het land bloot is. |
| Finnish | Silloin Joosef muisti unet, jotka hän oli nähnyt heistä, ja sanoi heille: "Te olette vakoojia; olette tulleet katsomaan, mistä maa olisi avoin". |
| French | Joseph se souvint des songes qu`il avait eus à leur sujet, et il leur dit: Vous êtes des espions; c`est pour observer les lieux faibles du pays que vous êtes venus. |
| German | Und Joseph gedachte an die Träume, die ihm von ihnen geträumt hatten, und sprach zu ihnen: Ihr seid Kundschafter und seid gekommen zu sehen, wo das Land offen ist. |
| Haitian Creole | Le sa a Jozèf vin chonje rèv li te fè sou frè l' yo. Li di yo: -Nou se yon bann espyon. Nou vin isit la pou n' chache konnen pwen fèb peyi a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu ia teringat kepada mimpinya tentang mereka. Dan berkatalah ia, "Kamu ini mata-mata; kamu datang untuk menyelidiki di mana kelemahan negeri kami." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pada masa itu teringatlah Yusuf akan mimpi yang telah dimimpikannya akan hal mereka itu. Maka katanya kepadanya: Kamu sekalian orang pengintai; kamu datang hendak melihat di mana tanah ini teralpa adanya. |
| Maori | Na ka mahara a Hohepa ki nga moe i moe ai ia mo ratou, a ka mea ki a ratou, He tutei koutou; he whakataki i te wateatanga o te whenua i haere mai ai koutou. |
| Norwegian | Og Josef kom i hu det han hadde drømt om dem, og sa til dem: I er speidere, I er kommet for å se hvor landet ligger åpent. |
| Rumanian | Iosif wi -a adus aminte de visurile, pe cari le visase cu privire la ei, wi le -a zis: ,,Voi sknteyi iscoade; ayi venit numai ca sq cercetayi locurile slabe ale yqrii.`` |
| Swedish | Men Josef tänkte på de drömmar som han hade drömt om dem. Och han sade till dem: "I ären spejare, I haven kommit för att se efter, var landet är utan skydd." |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "DREAMS": daydreams, outdreams, redreams. (additional references) | |
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"DREAMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dirhams, Djemaa, dreame, dreames, drean, dreem, dreema, drema, dremes, dromas, Dyremose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DREAMS" (pronounced drē"mz) |
| 4 | -r ē" m z | creams, extremes, reams, screams, streams. |
| 3 | -ē" m z | beams, deems, gleams, racemes, redeems, regimes, schemes, seams, seems, steams, teams, teems, themes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dermas, madres. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: armed, dames, dares, dears, derma, derms, drams, dream, madre, mares, marse, maser, meads, rased, reads, reams, smear. | |
-2 letters: ares, arms, arse, dame, dams, dare, dear, derm, dram, ears, eras, made, mads, maes, mare, mars, mead, mesa, rads, rams, rase, read, ream, reds, rems, sade, same, sard, seam, sear, sera. | |
-3 letters: ads, are, arm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: admires, dammers, damners, dampers, demarks, madders, medlars, misread, radomes, remands, remudas, sedarim, sidearm, smarted, smeared, swarmed. | |
+2 letters: admirers, amenders, bermudas, comrades, damagers, darksome, daymares, defamers, demersal, disarmed, disarmer, dismaler, dreamers, duramens, eardrums, earldoms, emeralds, herdsman, jemadars, jemidars, madeiras, madrases, madrones, mandrels, marrieds, mastered, maunders, meanders, measured, mermaids, midyears, misgrade, misheard, misrated, misreads, ransomed, readmits, redreams, scrammed, screamed, seadrome, semiarid, semihard, smaragde, streamed, surnamed. | |
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