(n.) A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factor analyses identified three alexithymia factors (Feelings, Daydreaming, and External Thinking) and two depression factors (Somatic-Performance and Cognitive-Affective).
(2) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(3) If she seems little intense, it probably has something to do with why she is so wildly successful, yet we remain determined to reduce her – in her own tongue-in-cheek words – to a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
(4) Many adults have difficulty accepting the contraception requests of adolescents because they do not feel it is morally right for adolescents to have direct sexual experiences rather than daydreams.
(5) The at-risk subsample indicated the defensive effectiveness of overeating in their significantly more frequent report of dissociative experiences while eating, and less severe ratings of insecurity, worrying, and daydreaming.
(6) Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.
(7) The occurrence of sexual daydreams varied directly with each of the three behavioral indicators of sexual vigor for all age groups through age 64.
(8) Both Daydreaming and Safe from Harm were accompanied by atmospheric videos by the young director Baillie Walsh who then directed the now famous video for Unfinished Sympathy in which Nelson walks along West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, singing the song as if oblivious to the odd cast of street characters she encounters, while the group members fall into step behind her in cameo roles.
(9) We will organise the formal curriculum around the three Ds: drama, design and daydreaming.
(10) And so he travelled by bus, a journey that took at least 15 hours each way, and spent the time daydreaming of one day emulating his childhood hero, Ariel Ortega, who had played for River Plate before moving to Europe.
(11) The interplay of these elements, dream and cultural daydream, within the context of the transference, focused on conflicts in the phallic-narcissistic phase of development, with particular emphasis on separation.
(12) Requiring a mere 20 particles to seize command of its victims, the norovirus is 200 times more infectious than Daydream Believer by The Monkees .
(13) Although both groups reported an increase in the number of their daydreams as the vigil progressed, Type A subjects reported fewer daydreams during each period of watch than did Type B subjects.
(14) In Katha Pollitt ’s 2014 book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights , she noted how much she wished there was some easy, non-invasive way for women to get abortions without medical professionals (and government interference): I find myself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex or at the end of the month, that would keep them unpregnant with no one the wiser.
(15) The confused and overlapping patchwork of autonomous NHS structures that Mr Lansley left behind could easily render Mr Cameron’s hopes of seven-day care a daydream.
(16) The purpose was to confirm and extend this research as well as investigate the interrelationships between daydreaming and depression, locus of control, and visual imagery.
(17) Results of the studies failed to support the idea that psychotic patients have particularly frequent or vivid daydream activity, and indicate instead that psychotic patients tend to inhibit aspects of normal fantasy.
(18) The characteristics of daydreaming obtained in an original sample were obtained in the replication sample thus supporting the outcomes reported earlier.
(19) Across the lifespan problem-solving daydreams were the most likely for both sexes except for seventeen to twenty-nine year old males where such daydreams were second most likely; from age seventeen to twenty-nine sexual daydreams were most likely for males.
(20) Any new environment reminds me of school, and I associate that with teachers who used to call me thick and bone idle, because I used to daydream, because I wasn't quite there.
Nightmare
Definition:
(n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
(n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
(n.) Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(2) His next C4 show, Gordon’s Costa Del Nightmares – a “rebooted Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” – will be his last for now.
(3) The country's priority now, he added, was to "comfort and care for people who have lived through a nightmare which very few of us can imagine".
(4) Arsenal had the game in their pocket and the Welshman was having such a nightmare - he missed the target with a far-post volley in the second half - that the Arsenal fans were mocking him with chants of 'Give it to Giggsy'.
(5) Slaven Bilic must show West Ham he is more than a rock star manager | Aleksandar Holiga Read more For Sullivan and co, however, it is a nightmare they are embracing, one which has provided a shot at European football and the opportunity for Bilic to begin with an immediate feelgood run.
(6) The nightmare for western intelligence services is that our societies are under permanent threat from what may prove "one-time" terrorist cells that emerge from nowhere, without "form" on any government database, to launch an attack.
(7) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
(8) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(9) It was a bit of a nightmare … there wasn't an awful lot I could do."
(10) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
(11) "Every parent's worst nightmare," begins the advert.
(12) That can create a nightmare in terms of security, though in this case we still don’t know enough.” According to news reports , Clinton used the domain address @clintonemail.com for her private email.
(13) To go back to square one is just bringing nightmares to a lot of families to relive,” he said.
(14) Nightmares have long attracted neurologic and psychiatric attention, yet little is known of their pathophysiology.
(15) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(16) And with the cartels come other nightmares: kidnapping, extortion, contract killers and people trafficking.
(17) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
(18) If she seems little intense, it probably has something to do with why she is so wildly successful, yet we remain determined to reduce her – in her own tongue-in-cheek words – to a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
(19) Indeed, as gloating Argentinians poured into Rio, they feared it could become their worst nightmare.
(20) Even the nightmares my psyche produces in response to the horrors of today can’t come close to what these people have lived.