nightdream

English

Etymology

From night +‎ dream.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /naɪtdɹiːm/

Noun

nightdream (plural nightdreams)

  1. 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, →DOI:
      SEBAS-A variables pertinent to sexual orientation covered […] romantic/sexual daydreams, romantic/sexual nightdreams, […] .

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