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Oneirophile

A person who is obsessed with nighttime dreams. So much so, that they think about dreaming when they are awake. Someone who has a deep and intimate connection with dreaming. This person is likely to be a lucid dreamer.
Guy 1: Mark NEVER stops talking about dreams!
Guy 2: That is because he is an oneirophile
by Fleamino August 27, 2019
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oneirophrenia

Oneirophrenia is a hallucinatory, dream-like, state caused by several conditions such as prolonged sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, or drugs (such as ibogaine).

It has some of the characteristics of simple schizophrenia, such as a confusional state and clouding of consciousness, but without presenting the dissociation symptoms which are typical of this disorder.
Persons affected by oneirophrenia have a feeling of dream-like unreality which in its extreme form may progress to delusions and hallucinations. Therefore, it is considered a schizophrenia-like acute form of psychosis which remits in about 60% of cases within a period of two years. It is estimated that 50% or more of schizophrenic patients present oneirophrenia at least once.
by moongoddezz November 29, 2007
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