fantasizing

Synonyms

daydream dream fantasy dreaming hallucinate daydreaming woolgathering utopianism imagining theorizing mooning

Examples

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. Florence King

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart. Cecelia Ahern

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement. Gretchen Rubin

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing. Thomas Peterffy

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing. David Sedaris

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave. Spalding Gray