waking dream

noun

A dream or dreamlike situation while one is awake or in the drowsy period before sleep.

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Meanings

nounwaking dream (plural waking dreams)

plural waking dreams

  1. A dream or dreamlike situation while one is awake or in the drowsy period before sleep.

    I'll be the mirror where you are a queen / Your fellow magician of the waking dream / Hung with a hammer and a glass of wine / I'll be your woman and you can be mine

    2007, “I'll Be Your Woman”, in Party Girl, performed by Michelle Gurevich
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waking dream. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waking%20dream

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“waking dream.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waking%20dream. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “waking dream,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waking%20dream.

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