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dreamlife

dreamlife noun: the total experience of dreams and fantasies.

Noun

dreamlife (plural dreamlives)

  1. The total experience of dreams and fantasies.
    • Jane's compulsively active dreamlife is further characterized by recurrent, anxiety-ridden, and regressive nightmares, with images of barriers, closed doors and phantom-children.1988, Maurianne Adams, “Jane Eyre: Woman's Estate”, Arlyn Diamond, Lee R. Edwards (ed.), The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, University of Massachusetts Press, 150
    • We cannot quite count as “abnormal” what meets us, or beats against us, in the rising and falling waves of dreamlife. This dreamworld has already become the object of natural scientific and philosophical investigations.2003, Rudolf Steiner, chapter 5, in Sleep and Dreams: A Bridge to the Spirit, SteinerBooks, →ISBN, page 77

Forms of dreamlife

pluraldreamlives

Origin of dreamlife

From dream + life.

Questions about dreamlife

What does dreamlife mean?
Dreamlife means the total experience of dreams and fantasies.
What part of speech is dreamlife?
Dreamlife is a noun.
What is the plural of dreamlife?
The plural of dreamlife is dreamlives.

Words near dreamlife in the dictionary

  1. dreamless
  2. dreamlessly
  3. dreamlessness
  4. dreamlet
  5. dreamlets
  6. dreamlife
  7. dreamlike
  8. dreamlikeness
  9. dreamlining
  10. dreamlives
  11. dreamlore

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