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