What is "daydreams"

Usage examples of "daydreams".

From wandering through many a solemn scene Of opium visions, with a heart serene And intellect miraculously bright: I wake from daydreams to this real night.

From prayer and fasting in a lonely cell, 25 Which brought an ecstasy ineffable Of love and adoration and delight: I wake from daydreams to this real night.

From ruling on a splendid kingly throne A nation which beneath my rule has grown 30 Year after year in wealth and arts and might: I wake from daydreams to this real night.

From preaching to an audience fired with faith The Lamb who died to save our souls from death, Whose blood hath washed our scarlet sins wool-white: 35 I wake from daydreams to this real night.

From drinking fiery poison in a den Crowded with tawdry girls and squalid men, Who hoarsely laugh and curse and brawl and fight: I wake from daydreams to this real night.

From writing a great work with patient plan 45 To justify the ways of God to man, And show how ill must fade and perish quite: I wake from daydreams to this real night.

From desperate fighting with a little band Against the powerful tyrants of our land, 50 To free our brethren in their own despite: I wake from daydreams to this real night.

Not real, it's one of the Daydreams, that's all, or maybe it's a crab or something .

Jack paused as he reached the final row of uprights, sensing as if Speedy Parker's illusory juvenescence were the key to them that the Daydreams were somehow very near, hovering all about him.

Some of the Daydreams had been disturbing, yes, and his mother's carefully worded admonitions not to mix up reality and make-believe (in other words don't go crazy, Jacky, ole kid ole sock, okay?

Jack could never have mentioned the Daydreams to either his father or his mother, but his father knew about the Daydreams because he had to — simple as that.

And the next step, felt along Jack's emotions more than consciously expressed, was that his dad helped keep the Daydreams safe.

What they said was beyond him, their terms and vocabulary were too adult, but six-year-old Jack experienced again the wonder and joy of the Daydreams, and was at least old enough to understand the direction of their conversation.

The Daydreams were real, and Jacky somehow shared them with his father.

He knew these things, knew exactly where he was, because Orris was still here, inside his head — speaking to him the way the right side of the brain may speak to the rational left during daydreams, in a low but perfectly clear voice.