a good metaphor about dreams?

Answer 1

Dreams are the chains that link this world to the next. They are the drawbridges that link the intangible, the idealistic with the realistic. They are the walls that separate common prescience from true genius. Dreams are gold.

Answer 2

Metaphor, from the Greek for "transference," is the use of language that designates one thing to designate another in order to characterize the latter in terms of the former. Nominal metaphors use nouns in this way, as in "My daughter is an angel." Predicative metaphors use verbs, as in "The dog flew across the back yard." In addition to single words being used metaphorically, phrases, sentences, and more extended texts can also function as metaphors, as in the assertion "Bravely the troops carried on" to refer to telephone operators who continued to work during a natural disaster. Sometimes a metaphor can be recognized because it is literally false. When a proud father says, "My daughter is an angel," no one believes that she has wings. But a metaphor need not be literally false. The opposite assertion -- that one's daughter is no angel -- is literally true; she does not have wings. Yet this is not likely to be the speaker's intended meaning, nor is it likely to be a hearer's interpretation. In each of these two cases, hearers must go beyond the literal meaning to arrive at the speaker's intention -- what the hearer is intended to understand.

It was discovered in the late 1970's that the mind contains an enormous system of general conceptual metaphors -- ways of understanding relatively abstract concepts in terms of those that are more concrete. Much of our everyday language and thought makes use of such conceptual metaphors. This paper claims, first, that the system of conceptual metaphor that functions in ordinary thought and language is also used, first, to provide plausible interpretations of dreams and, second, to generate dreams.

Here are some examples
My dream empowered me with the strength of a powerful locomotive.
I had a dream that took me to heaven and back.
My dream was a breath of fresh air.

Answer 3

Dreams


Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Answer 4

A dream is a trip to foreign lands.

Answer 5

Pictionary played by the sub-conscience mind

Answer 6

how about: a dream is the commercial break in the sitcom (or drama or documentary) that is called YOUR LIFE

Answer 7

dreams are a safe zone where one can make goals and not be judged

Answer 8

Thats not a question....what are u trying to ask

Answer 9

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