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The Season 8 finale saw protagonist, narrator and inveterate daydreamer J.D.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

The North has so far rejected Lee's goodwill gestures, calling him "delusional" and a "daydreamer".

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2025

As a child growing up in Southern California, Octavia Butler was a daydreamer who found comfort in the books she read.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

This is Square Go, a late-night rumble of a show in which he plays 13-year-old Glaswegian daydreamer Max, hiding in the school toilets with his mate Stevie, awaiting a fight with a bully.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2019

He frowned and saw where he’d messed up: he was a daydreamer.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers