An instance of dreaming; a dream or reverie.
"She spent her afternoon lost in a harmless dreaming, watching clouds shift into strange shapes above the meadow."
In plain English: Dreaming is when your brain makes up random stories while you sleep.
"He spent all afternoon discussing his strange dreaming about flying over the city."
Usage: Use this noun to refer specifically to the act of sleeping and having dreams, rather than using it as an adjective before another noun like "sleep." It is often confused with the gerund form when describing someone who spends time in idle thought while awake.
present participle of dream
"As she lay in bed, her mind was dreaming up wild adventures before she even closed her eyes."
In plain English: Dreaming is when your brain makes up stories while you sleep.
"I was dreaming about flying when I suddenly woke up with a start."
The time of the shaping of the physical and spiritual world by the ancestors; the events or beliefs connected to these times.
"In many Indigenous cultures, dreaming is not merely sleep but a sacred era when ancestral spirits shaped both the physical landscape and spiritual laws for future generations."