a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended |
imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) |
a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | a torpid state resembling deep sleep |
a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality | a period of time spent sleeping |
a cherished desire | |
someone or something wonderful | |