of (one's) dreams

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of (one's) dreams

That one most desires or has hoped for. I never expected to get married again, but meeting the man of my dreams completely changed my mind. I can't turn down this offer—it's the job of my dreams!
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of your dreams

COMMON If someone or something is the person or thing of your dreams, they are the best you can imagine. Maybe, just maybe, the man of your dreams will walk through that door and into your life tonight. It was in Tunisia that they saw the house of their dreams, the most beautiful dwelling imaginable.
See also: dream, of
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They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.
I see explanation is necessary before I can tell you of the substance of my dreams. Otherwise, little could you know of the meaning of the things I know so well.
Yet I never dreamed of cities; nor did a house ever occur in any of my dreams. Nor, for that matter, did any of my human kind ever break through the wall of my sleep.
I was taken home, nervous and overwrought, sick with the invasion of my real life by that other life of my dreams.
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Then, in the vision of my dream, Mopo, thou didst draw near, and, lifting thy hand, didst give the royal salute of Bayete to these brothers of mine, and with thy foot didst spurn the carcase of me, thy king.
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He was part of my dream, of course--but then I was part of his dream, too!
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Many of my dreams and Martha's anxiety ridden dream flights have pointed to significant issues that seemed well hidden in our waking respective and interactive worlds; it has felt at times that seeds of insight and understanding were hibernating and grew into light through bringing dreams in the waking.
Bad dreams are made of this: looking at distressing dreams in light of Heidegger's Befindlichkeit and Boss' dream theories
My students are aware of my dreams, and they encourage my progress.
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