dream vision

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noun

a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.

Origin of dream vision

First recorded in 1905–10

Also called dream allegory.

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In one case we then speak of the "waking hallucinations of the normal," in the other, of the dream-vision of the somnambulists.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology
C. G. Jung
I have said above that that woman appeared to me like a dream-vision—and like a dream-vision she went past and vanished forever.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
Ivn Turgnieff
Every time that I described to any one my dream-vision respecting him, I confidently expected him to answer, it was not so.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
Various
I was not less astonished to find that my dream-vision agreed with reality.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
Various
No wonder that Hamlet preferred the ills he knew rather than run the risk of one dream-vision.
The World I Live In
Helen Keller