daydream

"That's what life's about, right? You daydream and you dream about the biggest things possible. Then you try and make it a reality."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Modern gadgets are damaging our ability to daydream, socialize and perceive the physical world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The success of the bearded, ass-kicking Ranger marked a stunning reversal of fortune for Norris, who grew up a shy, unathletic child, who "used to daydream about being strong...to beat up the bullies".

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

There, the mother darns socks and sweeps the endless dust, while the thoroughly American children daydream in midcentury fantasia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Someone said later she’d gone off into a daydream, but I was pretty sure, as was Ruth, that she was thinking hard about what to say next.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Researchers have begun poking around in our musical daydreams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

As long as J.D.’s daydreams and goofy bromance with Turk remain, I’m all in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026

“I’ve had all sorts of daydreams about every pitching thing possible as a kid — relieving, closing out a game, starting in the World Series,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025

On the itchy, impatient Can Time Move Faster, she daydreams about escaping its grasp.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

I hadn’t had a chance to talk with him yet, but sometimes I would see him drift off into his own daydreams and be embarrassed when we caught him at it.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

Commander Murphy likened Khalife to the self-aggrandising fictional character Walter Mitty, who daydreamed about extraordinary personal triumphs.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

For years, April had daydreamed about seeing Hunter again, imagining that he would still be the little boy she remembered.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2024

But since his death on Apr. 1, their mother, Inshirah — who once daydreamed of seeing Saifeddin get married — has been unable to accept that he is gone.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

Vincent‘s purchase came after years of perusing yard sales and thrift stores with her mother. She loves PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and has daydreamed many times of this kind of lottery ticket-level transaction.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

Often on those walks home from school, I daydreamed that we were a family again—that Daddy finished school to make Mother happy and she canceled the divorce to let him come back home.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

“I’ve asked my friends, and apparently my daydreaming or thinking face looks focused,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

“When they were younger, I was daydreaming about the days that I would be an empty-nester,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

You are standing in line alongside everyone else, daydreaming about whatever, when, out of the corner of your eye, you see a few men sprinting down the street in the opposite direction.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

Harold’s people, like me, well they could be found daydreaming in cemeteries or sipping coffee on the stoops of abandoned houses.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

But it's a hollow day, and even with all that I start daydreaming about food.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins