Noun
waking dream (plural waking dreams)
A dream or dreamlike situation while one is awake or in the drowsy period before sleep.
Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle
Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open. Daniel Pinchbeck