dream vision

noun

: a usually medieval poem having a framework in which the poet pictures himself as falling asleep and envisioning in his dream a series of allegorical people and events

Examples of dream vision in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Back to your dream vision, the three of you come together at the end. —Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

There are dream visions about a homeland from which he has long been exiled. —The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025

But the sequences are also meant to be dream visions, metaphysical and cinematic escapes into an alternate dimension full of exquisite grandiosity and grace. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2025

Even in Hollywood’s dream vision, beauty gives way to an American pointing an oversized gun. —James Poniewozik, New York Times, 6 May 2024

Speaking of, The Wheel of Time will also return to Two Rivers – which, if Nynaeve's (Zoë Robins) dream visions are to be believed, isn't in great shape. —EW.com, 24 Oct. 2023

Each morning the missionary wonders whether the old man’s latest dream vision will spell the death of him. —Justin E. H. Smith, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023

My dream vision for myself is having wavy, messy hair. —ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022

That same year, Life published one of Julius Shulman’s now legendary photographs of the Kaufmann House—a dream vision of postwar leisure, with Liliane Kaufmann lounging by the pool as the Palm Springs sun sets behind desert mountains. —Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dream vision

• abscission
• collision
• decision
• derision
• division
• elision
• envision
• excision
• incision
• misprision
• precision
• prevision