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, […] .

See also

• nightmare