Dorveille

Quick meaning: Dorveille is a noun meaning (literary) A dreamlike semi-conscious state, such as while falling asleep or waking up, between periods of sleep, or from exhaustion; generally with reference to an altered mental state where there is no distinction between the fantastic and the familiar.

Meaning

(literary) A dreamlike semi-conscious state, such as while falling asleep or waking up, between periods of sleep, or from exhaustion; generally with reference to an altered mental state where there is no distinction between the fantastic and the familiar.

Example Sentences

[Lancelot] has witnessed the miraculous cure of his fellow knight, but he understands nothing of what he has seen in his somnolent dorveille.

the narrator is in a dreamlike state midway between sleep and wakefulness, […] "dorveille", a state that accentuates the inability to tell whether the events being recounted really happened or not.

The poetic voice describes how, sleepless with lovesickness, he goes to the chapel, seeking respite. As he meditates there upon the cause of his "passion", he […] enters into a state of dorveille and has a vision populated with women

Among indigenous and early peoples, the liminal state of dorveille (sleep-wake) is a time when you might stir and share dreams with whoever is available. […] Sometimes a whole poem or song is delivered within a dream or in that fluid in-between zone of sleep-wake, dorveille.

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Related dictionary entries include reverie, daymare, dreaming, daydreaming, daydream, derealization.

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