dream world

the world of imagination or illusion rather than of objective reality.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 7

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First recorded in 1810–20

He buried his head in his hands and felt the dream-world tottering about him.
Sandy|Alice Hegan Rice
She is fully orientated to the external world, but seems to stand with one foot, as it were, in her dream-world.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology|C. G. Jung
The dream-world reveals itself to us; great spirit eyes look into ours.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany|Georg Brandes
How we clutch at shadows (in this dream-world) as if they were substances, and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake!
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood

Again, it was as if something in this dream-world real-world could tell him more than he should know.
Voyage To Eternity|Milton Lesser