1821 P. B. Shelley i Like a day-appearing dream.
1832 T. Medwin tr. Aeschylus 6 He..roams about, about, and seems As spectral, marrowless and wan, As day-appearing ghosts in dreams.
2013 A. Wroe in M. O'Neill et al. iii. 48 He had met himself before, a day-appearing dream walking on the narrow terrace that almost overhung the sea.