dream [ME, dreem, joyful noise] , 1. a sequence of ideas, thoughts, emotions, or images that pass through the mind during the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep. 2. the sleeping state in which this process occurs. 3. a visionary creation of the imagination experienced during wakefulness. 4. (in psychoanalysis) the expression of thoughts, emotions, memories, or impulses repressed from the consciousness. 5. (in analytic psychology) the wishes, emotions, and impulses that reflect the personal unconscious and the archetypes that originate in the collective unconscious. See also dream analysis, dream state.
