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fever dream
[fee-ver dreem]
noun
a particularly distressing, scary, or bizarre dream that a person may have when experiencing a fever.
Bedridden with pneumonia, he had a fever dream in which bony old cats were climbing the walls of his room.
a situation, circumstance, or experience, typically unfavorable, that is odd enough to be likened more to a dream than to reality.
So far, college has felt like a fever dream—ever since I arrived I’ve just felt so out of place.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fever dream1
Example Sentences
On May 13, “Bad Thoughts,” a six-episode series, crashes onto Netflix like a fever dream.
A pair of 9-foot-tall figures looked like they had just stepped off a spaceship — or out of a psychedelic fever dream.
"I need you to imagine a Titanic Museum, and Celine Dion crashes and she says, 'Oh, no, no, no'. This is not actually what what went down. I'll tell you what went down because I was there and this story is a fever dream," she added.
I was aware of that anticipation and I was hoping they wouldn’t be too disappointed by the announcement of the company, but I’m just really really excited about this endeavor and it’s certainly something that Ilene and I have been in a fever dream about for, I don’t know, gosh, twenty years or so.
Backstage, Garai joked that she had a "terrifying thought" while standing on stage that she was "maybe accepting the award on behalf of the wrong play, which was kind of like a fever dream I've had for the last few weeks".
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