Daydream meaning

Verb: daydream

Pronunciation: (dey,dreem)

Daydream meaning:

• Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy.
• Have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.

Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgathering

Quotations: Neil Gaiman – You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.

Japanese Proverb – Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Khrushchev – Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

James Hardy – I had this in my mind. I think about it before the game, every game. I see myself doing it before it happens. From the hotels. I’ll be on the bus, just daydreaming, listening to music, looking out the window, and I see myself doing everything, and I just come out here and try to do it.

Sample sentences:

• Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
• How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
• I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
• Television is simply automated daydreaming.
• I’m not daydreaming out there. I was working.