nightdream

From night +‎ dream.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /naɪt-dɹiːm/

nightdream (plural nightdreams)

1. A dream that is experienced while sleeping at night, as distinguished from a daydream. [from 16th c.]
   • 1937, Fritz Leiber, ‘The Terror from the Depths’:

     You have black nightdreams, I know, for I have sat by you as you slept and heard you talk and seen your terror, which would soon destroy you if you could recall it, as one night showed.

   • 2007 December 22, Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg et al., “Sexual Orientation in Women with Classical or Non-classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Function of Degree of Prenatal”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, DOI:10.1007/s10508-007-9265-1:

     SEBAS-A variables pertinent to sexual orientation covered […] romantic/sexual daydreams, romantic/sexual nightdreams, […] .

• nightmare