nightdream
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
nightdream (plural nightdreams)
- A dream that is experienced while sleeping at night, as distinguished from a daydream. [from 16th c.]
- 1937, Fritz Leiber, ‘The Terror from the Depths’:
- You have black nightdreams, I know, for I have sat by you as you slept and heard you talk and seen your terror, which would soon destroy you if you could recall it, as one night showed.
- 2007 December 22, Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg et al., “Sexual Orientation in Women with Classical or Non-classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Function of Degree of Prenatal”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, :
- SEBAS-A variables pertinent to sexual orientation covered […] romantic/sexual daydreams, romantic/sexual nightdreams, […] .
- 1937, Fritz Leiber, ‘The Terror from the Depths’: