Dream
Dream noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.
Fairy tale and dream are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fairy tale" instead a noun "Dream".
Fairy tale
Fairy tale noun - A statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive.
Dream and fairy tale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dream" instead a noun phrase "Fairy tale".
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- A character in a Celtic fairy tale (reprinted in Traditional Tales From Long, Long Ago by Philip Wilson) is unable to dream but is otherwise perfectly normal.
Source: Cannot Dream -
Dream Sequence: Usually with Brooks dreaming about Boynton sweeping her off her feet or in some magical fairy tale, then the alarm clock ruins it all.
Source: Radio / Our Miss Brooks - The Mexican movie Macario is related to the below fairy tale 'Godfather Death', but a lot of the circumstances are changed, and apparently It Was All Just A Dream.
Source: God and Satan Are Both Jerks
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