DREAM (2)

dream (2). Dream, v.i. dreamed, dreampt, pret. dreamed, drempt, pa. to think in sleep, imagin, fancy, have ide notions, to be sluggish

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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. 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. 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.