| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | abstraction | Mental withdrawal into thought. |
| 2. | air-castle building | Imagining unrealistic future plans. |
| 3. | anticipating | Imagining or expecting future events. |
| 4. | aspiring | Hoping to achieve something. |
| 5. | assuming | Imagining something without proof. |
| 6. | bemusement | Dreamy confusion or absorption. |
| 7. | blue-sky thinking | Imaginative unconstrained thinking. |
| 8. | brainstorming | Generating ideas imaginatively. |
| 9. | brown study | Deep, dreamy absorption. |
| 10. | building castles | Making fanciful plans. |
| 11. | calling up | Bringing to mind. |
| 12. | castle-building | Making unrealistic plans or dreams. |
| 13. | catnapping | Taking a short light sleep. |
| 14. | cogitating | Thinking deeply. |
| 15. | conceiving | Forming an idea mentally. |
| 16. | conjuring | Bringing an image to mind. |
| 17. | craving | Wanting something intensely. |
| 18. | daydream | A waking fantasy. |
| 19. | daydreaming | Imagining while awake. |
| 20. | desiring | Wanting something strongly. |
| 21. | devising | Planning or imagining a new idea. |
| 22. | dozing | Sleeping lightly. |
| 23. | dream | A sleep vision or aspiration. |
| 24. | drifting off | Falling asleep gradually. |
| 25. | drowsing | Being half asleep. |
| 26. | enchantment | A charmed, dreamlike feeling. |
| 27. | entrancement | A captivated, dreamlike state. |
| 28. | envisioning | Imagining something as possible or real. |
| 29. | escaping | Mentally avoiding reality. |
| 30. | escapism | Avoiding reality through fantasy. |
| 31. | evoking | Bringing a feeling or image. |
| 32. | fabricating | Making up something imagined. |
| 33. | fanciful thinking | Imaginative, unrealistic thinking. |
| 34. | fancying | Imagining or liking something. |
| 35. | fantasizing | Imagining desired or unreal things. |
| 36. | fantasy | An imagined unreal experience. |
| 37. | faraway thinking | Detached, dreamy thought. |
| 38. | foreseeing | Imagining what may happen. |
| 39. | forming images | Creating mental pictures. |
| 40. | hallucinating | Perceiving unreal things. |
| 41. | hoping | Wanting something to happen. |
| 42. | hypothesizing | Proposing an imagined explanation. |
| 43. | idealizing | Imagining as perfect. |
| 44. | imagination | The act of forming mental images. |
| 45. | imaging | Forming a mental picture. |
| 46. | imagining | Forming pictures or ideas mentally. |
| 47. | indulging | Allowing oneself imaginative pleasure. |
| 48. | inner seeing | Imagining visually in the mind. |
| 49. | inventing | Creating something in imagination. |
| 50. | living in a dream | Being absorbed in unreality. |
| 51. | living in fantasy | Existing mentally in imagined worlds. |
| 52. | longing | Wanting something deeply. |
| 53. | make-believing | Pretending something is real. |
| 54. | making up | Inventing in the mind. |
| 55. | meditating | Thinking quietly and deeply. |
| 56. | mental imaging | Creating images in the mind. |
| 57. | mental picturing | Seeing internally with imagination. |
| 58. | mind-wandering | Letting attention drift. |
| 59. | mind’s-eye seeing | Visualizing internally. |
| 60. | musing | Thinking dreamily or reflectively. |
| 61. | napping | Sleeping briefly. |
| 62. | night vision | A dream seen during sleep. |
| 63. | nocturnal vision | A nighttime dream image. |
| 64. | nodding off | Starting to fall asleep. |
| 65. | oneiric imagining | Dreamlike imagining. |
| 66. | oneirism | A dreamlike mental state. |
| 67. | phantasizing | Imagining fantasies; variant of fantasizing. |
| 68. | phantasying | Indulging in fanciful imagination. |
| 69. | picturing | Imagining a mental image. |
| 70. | pining | Longing sadly for something. |
| 71. | planning | Imagining and arranging future actions. |
| 72. | pretending | Acting as if something were true. |
| 73. | projecting | Imagining a future situation. |
| 74. | rapture | Intense dreamy delight. |
| 75. | reverie | A state of dreamy thought. |
| 76. | romanticizing | Imagining as better than reality. |
| 77. | sleeping | Resting in sleep. |
| 78. | slumbering | Sleeping peacefully. |
| 79. | snoozing | Sleeping lightly or briefly. |
| 80. | somnolence | A sleepy, dreamlike state. |
| 81. | spacing out | Becoming inattentive and dreamy. |
| 82. | speculating | Imagining possibilities without certainty. |
| 83. | starry-eyed thinking | Naively hopeful imagining. |
| 84. | supposing | Imagining something as possible. |
| 85. | theorizing | Imagining explanations or possibilities. |
| 86. | trance | A dreamlike state of absorption. |
| 87. | trancing | Entering a dreamlike state. |
| 88. | transport | A state of dreamy delight. |
| 89. | tripping | Experiencing strange visions or thoughts. |
| 90. | vision | An imagined future picture. |
| 91. | visioning | Imagining a future possibility. |
| 92. | visualising | British spelling of visualizing. |
| 93. | visualizing | Seeing something in the mind. |
| 94. | wandering | Moving mentally without focus. |
| 95. | weaving tales | Creating imaginative stories. |
| 96. | wishful thinking | Believing desires over reality. |
| 97. | wishing | Desiring something imagined. |
| 98. | woolgathering | Indulging in idle daydreams. |
| 99. | yearning | Longing strongly for something. |
| 100. | zoning out | Losing attention in thought. |