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

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

For millennials and Gen Z kids like mine, there was once a golden era when you could just daydream all day about getting your invitation to Hogwarts without any associations with a full-time transphobe.

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

Sometimes I have it during the day, but then it’s a daydream.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

What emerges in our musical daydreams might be something to hold on to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

"The office cubicle has trapped me again," he says as he daydreams of a holiday on the continent.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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

Mendoza, a business grad student who daydreams about making commercial real estate deals, flew in from Cal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

In my daydreams I always ended up saving Courtney from some nutty enemy so she could fall in love with me or whatever.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

If you’ve ever daydreamed about covering some part of the famous roadway, hop on in and let’s get our kicks, shall we?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

"I daydreamed a story," Hailey remembered on Desert Island Discs in 1986.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

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

She’d daydreamed about this moment forever, and that was how she greeted her idol?

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

When we’re daydreaming and ruminating and self-reflecting and mentally time-traveling or imagining other people’s thoughts, we’re not present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

It won’t surprise you that nowadays our daydreaming time is shrinking, one more thing squashed by social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

What’s the point of daydreaming about him, especially now?

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith