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Definition: Dreaming |
DreamingNoun1. Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality". 2. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dreaming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(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: DreamingSynonym: dream (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Dreaming; phrensy, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy; calenture; (delirium); reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism. |
Inattention | Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dreaming |
| English words defined with "dreaming": air castle ♦ castle in Spain, castle in the air ♦ daydream, daydreaming, dreamer ♦ nonrapid eye movement, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM, NREM sleep ♦ oneirism, orthodox sleep, Outdream ♦ paradoxical sleep ♦ rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement sleep, REM, REM sleep, reverie, revery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dreaming": Acquaintance, Ashes ♦ Breath ♦ Cage, Camp, Cardinal, Cemetery, Chaff, Cocktail, COLUMBUS, Cousin, Crawfish, Crawl ♦ Dark, Doves, Dressing ♦ Gong ♦ Knapsack ♦ Laurel, Lovely, Lute ♦ Orchard ♦ Parents, Peacock, Peas, Pheasant, Poinard, Portrait, Potatoes ♦ Quicksand ♦ Rage, Roman Candle ♦ Salmon, Salt, Scandal, Sky, Sleep, REM, Soldiers, Somnambulist, Stain, Stone Mason ♦ Teasing ♦ Vehicle ♦ Wading. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dreaming": Dream. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | One day I'll fly away leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering (Johnny Got His Gun; writing credit: Dalton Trumbo) Maybe I'm dreaming. My eyes are open, which means maybe I'm awake dreaming that I'm asleep (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara) I was dreaming about sleeping (Jetsons: The Movie; writing credit: Eric Luke) How many nights I have gone to sleep on the cold floor of the sietch, dreaming of his arms around me; sheltering me from everything I was afraid of, everything I could not understand (Children of Dune; writing credit: Frank Herbert; John Harrison) | |
Lyrics | Cause I'm dreaming of you tonight (Dreaming of You; performing artist: Selena) While you're far away dreaming (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH) She turns to me sometimes and asks me what I'm dreaming (All About Soul; performing artist: Billy Joel) Your eyes got me dreaming (Ebony Eyes; performing artist: Bob Welch; writing credit: Bob Welch) I'm dreaming away (Oops!... I Did It Again; performing artist: Britney Spears) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Design for Dreaming (1956) Dreaming (1944) Poor Little Chap He Was Only Dreaming (1913) Africa Dreaming (1997) 000 Years of Dreaming 40 (1996) | |
Song Titles | Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming (lp cut) (performing artist: Jermaine Jackson) Living With The Dreaming Body (performing artist: Poi Dog Pondering) Dreaming Of You (performing artist: Selena) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cartoon by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alexander was dreaming of getting rich on railroad stocks. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Southern California dreaming - the beach at Newport. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Oh, hush thee, little dear-my-soul, and close thine eyes in dreaming. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wonder what he's dreaming to-night?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | His time for day dreaming is about over. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dreaming of a white Christmas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dreaming" by Yew Leong Commentary: "Sometimes is nice to look up." | "Dreaming" by Jeffrey Lingmont Commentary: "Girl on train looking out the window." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edgar Allan Poe | Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. |
Novalis | We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. |
Victor Hugo | Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Dreaming | a | | | XVIII | do. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was only a poor young man, dreaming without an object |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And Ruthie and Winfield were awake, but quiet with the pressure of tiredness and still half dreaming. |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher |
Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare | Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-diner's sleep, dreaming on both |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | We typically spend more than 2 hours each night dreaming. (references) | |
This sleep state, called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, is when dreaming occurs. (references) | ||
As mentioned above, XXY boys may withdraw from material they find difficult and retreat into day dreaming. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Hope is reborn for couples dreaming of owning homes and for risktakers with vision to create tomorrow's opportunities. |
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| "Dreaming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.27% of the time. "Dreaming" is used about 494 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.27% | 432 | 13,298 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.25% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.65% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.63% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 0.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 494 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "dreaming". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Helem | N/A | Biblical | Dreaming |
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Expressions using "dreaming": mnemonic induction of lucid dreaming ♦ Transformational dreaming. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dreaming": day-dreaming, half-dreaming, non-dreaming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "dreaming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 作梦 (Dreamed, Dreamt). (various references) | |
Finnish | haaveilu (reverie). (various references) | |
French | rêvant. (various references) | |
German | träumend (daydreaming), phantasierend (delirious, fantasising, raving). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חולמנות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ábrándozás (daydream, day-dream, reverie, wishful thinking). (various references) | |
Italian | sognando. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ドラ息子 (being pegged to the dollar, Dolby, Dolby surround, dolce, dolcissimo, Doline, doll, dollar, dollar clause, dollar peg, dollar shift, dollar shock, dollar shop, dollar usance, dolly, dolman sleeve, dolmen, dolphin kick, doria, Dorian, Dortmund, dream, dreamer, dreamy, dribble, drifter, drill, drink, drip coffee, driven, durian, lazy son, profligate son), 夢路 , 夢寐 (asleep). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドリーミング , むび (asleep), ゆめじ. (various references) | |
Korean | 꿈꿈. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamingdray.(various references) | |
Romanian | visare (brown study, day-dreaming, dream, reverie), toropealã (apathy, enervation, reverie, sleepiness, torpor), reverie (brown study, day dream, reverie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sanjarenje (daydream, dream, reverie), sanjanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | soñador (day dreamer, day-dreaming, dispenser, dormouse, dreamer, dreamy). (various references) | |
Swedish | drömmeri. (various references) | |
Turkish | rüyalı, rüya gibi (dreamlike, dreamy), hayal meyal (dreamy, fuzzy, indistinct, indistinctly, misty, shadowy, vague), belli belirsiz (dreamy, faint, hardly visible, imperceptible, indistinct, indistinctly, insensible, nebulous, nebulously, shadowy, slight, slightly, soft, tentative, vaguely). (various references) | |
Welsh | breuddwydiol (dreamy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 56, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Idete oti panteV ektetuflwntai ouk egnwsan fronhsai panteV kuneV eneoi ou dunhsontai ulaktein enupniazomenoi koithn filounteV nustaxai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Speculatores eius caeci omnes nescierunt universi canes muti non valentes latrare videntes vana dormientes et amantes somnia |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | His tooteres alle blinde, alle thei vnknewen; doumbe dogges not mowende berken, seende veyne thingus, slepende, and loouende sweuenus; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 56, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ang iyang mga magbalantay mga buta, silang tanan lonlon mga walay kahibalo, silang tanan pulos mga irong amang, sila dili makausig; nanagdamgo, nanaghigda, mahigugmaon sa pagkatulog. |
| Croatian | Svi su mu stražari slijepi, i ništa ne shvaæaju. Svi su oni psi nijemi, ne mogu lajati. Sanjaju i drijemlju, najmilije im spavati. |
| Danish | Blinde er alle dets Vogtere, intet ved de, alle er stumme Hunde, som ikke kan gø, de ligger og drømmer, de elsker Søvn; |
| Dutch | Hun wachters zijn allen blind, zij weten niet; zij allen zijn stomme honden, zij kunnen niet bassen; zij zijn slaperig, zij liggen neder, zij hebben het sluimeren lief. |
| Finnish | Israelin vartijat ovat kaikki sokeita, eivät he mitään käsitä; he ovat kaikki mykkiä koiria, jotka eivät osaa haukkua. He näkevät unta, makailevat ja nukkuvat mielellään. |
| French | Ses gardiens sont tous aveugles, sans intelligence; Ils sont tous des chiens muets, incapables d`aboyer; Ils ont des rêveries, se tiennent couchés, Aiment à sommeiller. |
| German | Alle ihre Wächter sind blind, sie wissen nichts; stumme Hunde sind sie, die nicht strafen können, sind faul, liegen und schlafen gerne. |
| Haitian Creole | Li di: -Tout chèf ki la pou avèti pèp mwen an, je yo pete. Yo pa konprann anyen. Yo tankou chen ki pa janm jape. Lespri yo byen lwen. Yo kouche tout lajounen, y'ap kabicha. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kata TUHAN, "Pemimpin-pemimpin bangsa-Ku adalah orang-orang buta! Mereka tak tahu apa-apa. Mereka seperti anjing bisu yang tidak menyalak, tetapi tidur saja dan mimpi. Senang benar mereka tidur! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Segala penghulu mereka itu buta, satupun tiada diketahuinya, semuanya itu anjing kelu, tiada ia tahu menyalak, mereka itu mengantuk sambil berbaring dan suka tidur. |
| Italian | I suoi guardiani sono tutti ciechi, non si accorgono di nulla. Sono tutti cani muti, incapaci di abbaiare; sonnecchiano accovacciati, amano appisolarsi. |
| Maori | Ko ona tutei, he matapo katoa, kahore e mohio; he kuri reokore katoa ratou, e kore e tau; he momoe, he takoto, e matenui ana ki te moe. |
| Norwegian | Israels vektere er blinde alle sammen, de vet intet. Alle sammen er de stumme hunder, som ikke kan gjø; de ligger og drømmer og holder av å sove; |
| Portuguese | Todos os seus atalaias são cegos, nada sabem; todos são cães mudos, não podem ladrar; deitados, sonham e gostam de dormir. |
| Rumanian | Toyi pqzitorii lui sknt orbi, fqrq pricepere; toyi sknt niwte ckni muyi, cari nu pot sq latre; aiureazq, stau tolqniyi, wi le place sq doarmq. |
| Russian | уФТБЦЙ ЙИ УМЕРЩ ЧУЕ Й ОЕЧЕЦДЩ: ЧУЕ ПОЙ ОЕНЩЕ РУЩ, ОЕ НПЗХЭЙЕ МБСФШ, ВТЕДСЭЙЕ МЕЦБ, МАВСЭЙЕ УРБФШ. |
| Spanish | Sus centinelas son ciegos; no conocen. Todos ellos son perros mudos que no pueden ladrar, videntes echados que aman el dormitar. |
| Swedish | Väktarna här äro allasammans blinda, de hava intet förstånd; de äro allasammans stumma hundar, som icke kunna skälla; de ligga och drömma och vilja gärna slumra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dreaming": daydreaming, outdreaming, redreaming. (additional references) | |
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"Dreaming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deriming, Deryabin, draming, Dreimne, Dremanis, Oreamuno. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dreaming" (pronounced drē"ming) |
| 5 | -r ē" m i ng | screaming, streaming. |
| 4 | -ē" m i ng | beaming, gleaming, redeeming, scheming, seeming, steaming, teaming, teeming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, stemming, storming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: margined, midrange. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: deraign, germina, gradine, grained, inarmed, mangier, reading, reaming. | |
-2 letters: admire, aidmen, airmen, arming, daimen, damner, danger, daring, degami, denari, dinger, earing, engird, engram, enigma, gained, gainer, gamier, gamine, gander, garden, german, girned, gradin, grimed, imaged, imager, maiden, maigre, manger, margin, marine, median, medina, minder, mirage, ragmen, rained, ranged, reagin, reding, regain, regina. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: demarking, midranges, remanding. | |
+2 letters: abridgment, germanized, germinated, gormandise, gormandize, malingered, marginated, maundering, meandering, misreading, moderating, redamaging, redreaming, reimagined, smaragdine. | |
+3 letters: abridgement, abridgments, admeasuring, daydreaming, demarcating, dressmaking, drumbeating, gendarmerie, gormandised, gormandises, gormandized, gormandizer, gormandizes, gourmandise, gourmandize, greenmailed, impregnated, legerdemain, outdreaming, promenading, readmitting, redemanding, remediating. | |
+4 letters: abridgements, demagnetizer, demoralizing, deprograming, descrambling, disagreement, disembarking, dopaminergic, dressmakings, drumbeatings, fragmentized, gendarmeries, gormandizers, gourmandises, gourmandized, gourmandizes, legerdemains, marginalized, masquerading, micromanaged, preadmitting, remaindering, reprimanding, trademarking, ungerminated, unglamorized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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