dreamlife

plural dreamlives

1. The total experience of dreams and fantasies.

   Jane's compulsively active dreamlife is further characterized by recurrent, anxiety-ridden, and regressive nightmares, with images of barriers, closed doors and phantom-children.

   1988, Maurianne Adams, “Jane Eyre: Woman's Estate”, Arlyn Diamond, Lee R. Edwards (ed.), The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, University of Massachusetts Press, 150

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   We cannot quite count as “abnormal” what meets us, or beats against us, in the rising and falling waves of dreamlife. This dreamworld has already become the object of natural scientific and philosophical investigations.

   2003, Rudolf Steiner, chapter 5, in Sleep and Dreams: A Bridge to the Spirit, SteinerBooks, →ISBN, page 77

   It is an altogether chancy, combative, and transgressive story worthy of the risky city-in-spite-of-itself—a city built on constant invention and reinvention, one that has woven its way into the dreamlife of the rest of America and beyond: a city that boasts of Mardi Gras and the cultural interactions and conflicts that traverse almost three centuries.

   2006, Roger D. Abrahams, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 8