absentminded dreaming while awake
daydream
How to use daydream in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for daydream.
Editorial note
Marino: "wakes up from daydream you nerds are smart, you can figure it out"
Quick take
absentminded dreaming while awake
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of daydream gathered in one view.
have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for daydream.
noun
absentminded dreaming while awake
See also: reverie, revery, daydreaming, oneirism
verb
have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
See also: dream, woolgather, stargaze
verb
have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming"
See also: moon
Example sentences
Marino: "wakes up from daydream you nerds are smart, you can figure it out"
You're free to talk, read or daydream without worrying about your place in line.
Do we really wanna sit on a subway in silence twiddling our thumbs, and daydream?
Even though you couldn't be there in "the action" you could read about it and pretend and daydream.
I can daydream that a billionaire will randomly decide to give me half his fortune, for free!
Anything over .1 is great, and over .2 you start looking for what you broke..55 is an Adops executive daydream.
Sometimes I daydream about writing him a portfolio site or something, but I have no idea if that would help.
We shouldn't daydream of a day when those problems get artificially unsolved so we can have another shot at them.
Perhaps such a show would even lead to a decline in lottery ticket purchases, since the get-rich daydream would be available from another source.
I'm not saying that these aren't important topics to discuss, but everything I've read recently has come off as a prurient privacy daydream.
While others daydream, semi-journo's abound whose only existence is pointless contrariety.
This explanation makes me daydream about a new social app that convinces FOO million Facebook users to join just on the promise that each user gets a stake in the payout when it gets bought.
To try and define the term "daydream" as being equivalent to "make solid plans" so that you can equate daydreaming with criminal conspiracy is some of the most tortuous logic I have seen in a while.
Every once in a while I daydream about a government full of rationalists who one day say to themselves, "Hey, um, you know what would be a better thing to spend our money on preventing than terrorism?
For $2 you can spend the day dreaming about what you would do with half a billion dollars—half a billion dollars!”You're not making a bet with negative expected value, you're purchasing an entertaining daydream to help you through your miserable day.
Or that once they've seen a depiction that they'll be somehow compelled to go and rape someone?Here is a quote from an article in Psychology Today: "Many men daydream about getting the girl by rescuing her from a dangerous situation--without the slightest wish to confront armed thugs, or be trapped in a fire on the 23rd floor.
This is my experience, so I describe it here in first-person...When I close my eyes, almost immediately my visual memory lights up with a "day review" which is like a daydream but for being something which I can direct, using pretty much the same visualization mechanism I use for data/code/schematic structures when I'm designing, coding or debugging.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use daydream in a sentence?
Marino: "wakes up from daydream you nerds are smart, you can figure it out"
What does daydream mean?
absentminded dreaming while awake
What part of speech is daydream?
daydream is commonly used as noun, verb.