daydream

The reward, for him, was in the doing, in taking a daydream and forming it into an idea that he could shape into something real in the world, blending the mundane and the macabre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

"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

Soon there was little time to wonder and daydream.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

And, occasionally, she wanders into daydreams that Hayakawa presents so matter-of-factly that viewers may sometimes be unsure if what they’re seeing is actually happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Now that digital habits take up so much of our down time, who knows how much space we have left to fill with daydreams?

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

Brian Bartelt, who grew up in Appleton, said his wife sometimes daydreams about warmer weather, but he sees no need to look elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026

I could hole up in my bedroom and not talk to anyone and spend the next four days cycling through my ever-expanding repertoire of daydreams.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

"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 shared the good news with her roommates, her family and her favorite professor and daydreamed about her last day at her job, managing a gym called SnapFitness.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

For her part, Leanna says, she has daydreamed about having a life that would seem as natural as her brother’s, a life in which she would not feel like an outsider in her hometown.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Sophie compared it to daydreaming, but is completely unaware of what she does in those moments and they leave her feeling drained and exhausted.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

I don’t remember the impact of their split, but later, my mother told me my first-grade teacher said I had started daydreaming after being very attentive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

As he drove along the peaceful highway he soon fell to daydreaming and paid less and less attention to where he was going.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster