dreamland

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"Listen, then, and you will see that your dreamland is a prosaic place, after all.

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  1. noun An ideal or imaginary land.
  2. noun A state of sleep.

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  • Perhaps he wished to arouse us harshly from his dreamland, as was his habit while improvising for friends—a glissando would send them home shivering after an evening of delicious reverie Niecks finds this Impromptu lacking the pith of the first. —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
  • The included game is a hunter's dreamland, and will see you heading out into the wild to track and hunt down over 20 different wildlife species, that get bigger and more dangerous as you go along. —  Pocket-lint.com
  • Sometimes, by 11: 30 on Saturday nights, I'm already in dreamland -- and I'm a serious night person, which should tell you something about the life-altering properties of Having Children. —  litbrit
  • The Academy tends to disregard Science Fiction as an escapist's dreamland, and the programs it produces to be incapable of providing compelling human dramas, thus the lack of nominations for both Joss and Ronald D. Moore.
  • America is the Israeli dreamland, and NYC is Tel Aviv's wettest dream. —  Dissident Voice
 

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/ˈdrimlænd/
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