dreaming
作夢
Dream, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.]
1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Here may we sit and dream
Over the heavenly theme. --Keble.
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. --Locke.
dreaming
n 1: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream]
2: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream]