Dream, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Dreamed (drēmd) or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n.Dreaming.] [Cf. AS. drēman, drȳman, to rejoice. See Dream, n.] 1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; — often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Here may we sit and dream
Over the heavenly theme. Keble.
They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. Locke.