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Common collocations with dream in American Collocation

dream noun countable

US /drim/

strange

bizarre
strange
weird

When I do get to sleep I have a strange dream involving chasing people down fire escapes.

bad

bad
disturbing
horrible

I keep having bad dreams in which I am falling from a cliff.

nice

nice
pleasant

I awoke from a pleasant dream.

in which you see what is going to happen in the future

prophetic

He had had a spookily prophetic dream about death.

involving sexual thoughts

erotic

She had been having erotic dreams about a stranger she had met only a few days ago.

very clear

lucid
vivid

18.3 per cent of patients who took the drug reported having had vivid dreams.

happening many times

recurrent
recurring

Jane and I have both had strange, recurring dreams about death.

have a dream

dream
have

People often dream vivid recurrent dreams of events in the past.

I had a bad dream last night.

wake from a dream

awake from
wake from

He looked slightly disorientated, as if he had just woken from a dream.

not likely to be achieved

crazy
distant
elusive
impossible
romantic
unattainable
utopian

In our culture we are continually tempted to pay money for an elusive dream of satisfaction.

that you have had for a very long time

lifelong
long-held

She was an ambitious mother, whose lifelong dream was for all four daughters to become accomplished musicians.

big and ambitious

big
great

Kapoor was a small time filmmaker with big dreams.

not achieved

broken
shattered
unfulfilled

He was left with nothing but his memories and shattered dreams.

happening at the end of a process

ultimate

My ultimate dream is to have a farm of my own.

In a few years he will be rich beyond even his wildest dreams.

boyhood
childhood

Smithy said “It was my childhood dream come true to fly this iconic British fighter”.