Emily Dickinson Lexicon

dream (-s), n. [early ME drém.] (webplay: friend, God, life, man, mind, real, see, sleep, think, thought, time, view, visionary).

1. Vision; apparition; other world image.
2. Insight; revelation; heightened state of awareness; (see Genesis 20:3).
3. Poetic imagination; goals; aspirations; ambitions.
4. Fiction; imagination; fantasy; vision; (see Genesis 37:20).
5. Images; ideas in sleep; more revealing than waking thoughts; (see Genesis 31:24).
6. Spiritual bliss; vision of perfection; utopia; (see Ecclesiastes 5:7).