dreamletn.
/ˈdriːmlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈdrimlət/ rare before late 20th cent.
A brief dream; (Psychology) a dream experienced during the transition between sleeping and waking; a hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucination.
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gulf-dream1813
dreamlet1828
wet dream1851
dream sequence1893
wish-fulfilment1908
war dream1918
wish-dream1934
1828 Lairds of Fife II. vi. 115 After a few rather active sort of dreams, or rather—if we may be permitted to describe things as we wish—dreamlets, she arose in half an hour.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. iv. 95 She..had two or three nice dreamlets.
1974 Transatlantic Rev. No. 49. 132 Under the influence of the sun, in a brief, confusing dreamlet, I see myself chewing salty pieces of the hog's liver.
1983 I. Oswald in M. H. Lader Handbk. Psychiatry II. vi. 78/1 Hypnagogic hallucinations, or dreamlets associated with the times of sleep and drowsiness.
2001 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Weekend Suppl.) 10 Little work has yet been done on the not unpleasant ‘dreamlets’ associated with drifting from wakefulness into sleep or with dozing at the end of sleep.
2012 B. A. Wallace Dreaming Yourself Awake i. iii. 48 You will be able to detect broken images, dreamlets, and a variety of visual patterns that are part of the process of losing consciousness as we fall asleep.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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