Daydream vs. Dream: What's the Difference?

A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.

A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.

A daydream; a reverie.

A spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.

A state of abstraction; a trance

(intransitive) To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration

A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

A wild fancy or unrealistic hope

Absent-minded dreaming while awake

(Informal) One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful

Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

To experience a dream in sleep

Have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake;

To daydream

To have a deep aspiration or hope

To regard something as feasible or practical

To experience a dream of while asleep

To conceive as possible; imagine

To have as an aspiration or hope

To pass (time) idly or in reverie.

Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

(figurative) A hope or wish.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.

(intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.

(intransitive) To hope, to wish.

(intransitive) To daydream.

(transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).

(intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).

Ideal; perfect.

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; - in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.

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.

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.

To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; - often followed by an objective clause.

A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep;

A cherished desire;

Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake;

A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe);

A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality;

Someone of something wonderful;

Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

Experience while sleeping;