Mental Process
dream
dream [ dreem ]
Subclass of:
Imagination;
Sleep
Definitions related to dreams:
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Mental phenomenon occurring during sleep in which images, emotions, and thoughts are experienced with a sense of reality; occurs during REM sleep.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usual stream of consciousness of the waking state.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(dreaming) A mental phenomenon occurring during sleep in which images, emotions, and thoughts are experienced with a sense of reality; occurs during REM sleep.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Dream, a hallucinatory experience that occurs during sleep. Dreaming, a common and distinctive phenomenon of sleep, has throughout human history given rise to myriad beliefs, fears, and conjectures, both imaginative and experimental, regarding its mysterious nature. While any effort toward...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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