ADJ
- awful, bad, disturbing, strange
- a child frightened by a bad dream
- pleasant
- vivid
- recurrent
- erotic, wet
- prophetic
- He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster
VERB + DREAM
- dream, have
- She fell asleep and dreamed strange dreams. I had a very disturbing dream last night
- awake/wake from, be awoken/woken from
- I was awoken from my dream by a knock at the door
- interpret
- haunt
- Images of the crash still haunted his dreams years later
DREAM + VERB
- come true
- I hope my dream about prison won't come true!
- haunt sb
- vivid dreams that regularly haunted him
PREP
- in a/the ~
- In her dream, she was on board a ship heading for America
- ~ about
- a recurrent dream about being late for an exam
PHRASES
- as (if) in a dream
- She found herself standing in front of the crowded hall and making her speech, as if in a dream
- sweet dreams
- 'Sweet dreams,' she said, turning off the light
ADJ
- big, great
- Her biggest dream was to become a singer
- lifelong
- distant
- His plans to travel the world now seemed like a distant dream
- impossible
- Peace no longer seemed an impossible dream
- utopian
- romantic
- She had this romantic dream of living in a windmill
VERB + DREAM
- cherish, have
- the great utopian dream that they have cherished for so long
- achieve, fulfil, realize
- At last his dreams were fulfilled
- shatter
- The injury shattered her dream of running in the Olympics
- keep alive
- The victory keeps San Marino's dream of a World Cup place alive
DREAM + VERB
- come true
- He put all his efforts into making his dream of a united country come true
- turn into a nightmare, turn sour
- Their dream turned into a nightmare as the cruise ship began to sink
DREAM + NOUN
- holiday, home, house
- After Betty retired, she and her husband designed and built their dream house
- world
- The government is living in a dream world if they think voters will agree to higher taxes
PREP
- ~ of
- their dream of a fairer world
PHRASES
- the … of sb's dreams
- the house of her dreams
- beyond sb's wildest dreams
- They achieved a success beyond their wildest dreams
- a dream come true
- Their holiday in the Bahamas was a dream come true