dreamlife

noun

Etymology

From dream + life.

  1. derived from *leyp- — “to stick, glue
  2. inherited from *lībą — “life, body
  3. inherited from *līb
  4. inherited from līf
  5. inherited from lyf
  6. compounded as dreamlife — “dream + life

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dreamlife. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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