dream vision

noun

1. a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem:

   Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dream vision¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Her own gray spine stiffened when she saw the tawny hair along Kazan's back bristle at some dream vision.

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Angus gaped and blinked, and then he knew it was no dream vision, but real flesh and blood.

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I was not less astonished to find that my dream-vision agreed with reality.

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No wonder that Hamlet preferred the ills he knew rather than run the risk of one dream-vision.

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Every time that I described to any one my dream-vision respecting him, I confidently expected him to answer, it was not so.

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