dream room

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Noun

dream room (plural dream rooms)

  1. One's ideal room.
    • 2003, Lennon, Sharon and Mansour, Mona, Trading Spaces : Boys vs. Girls, Scholastic, page 15
      "I knew they were going to do my dream room, but I didn't know it was going to be this good!"
    • 2007, Cecil Hayes, Cecil Hayes Art of Decorative Details, Watson-Guptill, page 163
      To me, the child’s dream room is the Magic Kingdom of theme room designing and gives you the chance to use your imagination and decorative detailing to the max.
    • 1998, Birmingham, John, The Tasmanian Babes Fiascos, Flamingo, page 71
      Elroy’s dream room was pretty much anywhere large enough to hold his sticky foldup bed, his enormous collection of foreign beer cans and a giant framed photograph of himself, in his jocks, projectile vomiting into the Pacific Ocean.
  2. A imagined space in lucid dreams, hypnosis, or psychological contexts.
    • 2011, Newman, Emma, 20 years later, Dystopia Press, page 135
      That night Zane was pulled into the dream room again. All was as it had been the night before, but this time Erin was there too.
    • 1975, Holt, Victoria, Lord of the Far Island, Doubleday & Company, page 252
      I pictured my mother here in this room, going to the cupboard, taking out her painting materials and then going out to paint a scene of the castle or the Island, or perhaps to do a portrait. Where had she seen the dream room? That was yet another mystery.
    • 2012, Les Brann, Jacky Owens and Ann Williamson, The Handbook of Contemporary Clinical Hypnosis: Theory and Practice, Wiley-Blackwell, page 541
      First session-. Katy found two dream rooms. The good dream room was all light and cosy. The bad dream room was dark and dismal, and in this room she saw a dark foreboding figure.
    • 1994, Sardello, Robert J. , Facing the World with Soul, HarperPerennial, page 38
      The bedroom, dreamroom of the house, becomes awake when we sleep and fills with ancestors, daemons, animals, unspeakable acts, unknown creatures, and other fears not admitted to conscious life.
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