Allow and Dream

Allow

Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

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Dream and allow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dream" instead a verb "Allow".

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Dream verb - To form a mental picture of.

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Allow and dream are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Allow" instead a verb "Dream".

Nearby Words: dreamy, dreaming, dreaminess, dreamed, dreamily

Perhaps justified by the fact that she never actually shows up and is only described in an invented dream Armitage uses to convince his wife to allow Prudence to marry Herbert West instead.

Source: Theatre / Shoggoth on the Roof
When the audience is supposed to don their 3D glasses, the character entering the dream actually puts on a pair herself; it is explained that while the glasses mean nothing in the real world, in the dream they "can be whatever you want them to be", and allow her to navigate Freddy's mind.

Source: Painting the Medium
If the writers want to depict an Alternate Universe, but the show's genre would not usually allow an Alternate Universe per se, the depiction may be accomplished via an extended Dream Sequence.

Source: Alternate Universe

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