English

Noun

dreamlife ‎(plural dreamlives)

1. The total experience of dreams and fantasies.
   • 1988, Maurianne Adams, “Jane Eyre: Woman's Estate”, Arlyn Diamond, Lee R. Edwards (ed.), The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, University of Massachussetts Press, ISBN 0870236229, 150:

     Jane's compulsively active dreamlife is further characterized by recurrent, anxiety-ridden, and regressive nightmares, with images of barriers, closed doors and phantom-children.

   • 2003, Rudolf Steiner, Sleep and Dreams: A Bridge to the Spirit, SteinerBooks, ISBN 0880105127, chapter 5, 77:

     We cannot quite count as “abnormal” what meets us, or beats against us, in the rising and falling waves of dreamlife. This dreamworld has already become the object of natural scientific and philosophical investigations.

   • 2006, Roger D. Abrahams, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 9780812239591, 8:

     It is an altogether chancy, combative, and transgressive story worthy of the risky city-in-spite-of-itself—a city built on constant invention and reinvention, one that has woven its way into the dreamlife of the rest of America and beyond: a city that boasts of Mardi Gras and the cultural interactions and conflicts that traverse almost three centuries.