Career vs. Dream — What's the Difference?

The career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work and other aspects of life. There are a number of ways to define career and the term is used in a variety of ways.

A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and function of dreams are not fully understood, although they have been a topic of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history.

An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress

A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep

Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way

A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal

A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.

Experience dreams during sleep

The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements

Indulge in daydreams or fantasies about something greatly desired

A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.

Contemplate the possibility of doing something or that something might be the case

Speed

A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework

A daydream; a reverie.

To move forward at high speed, often with minimal control

A state of abstraction; a trance

One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.

A condition or achievement that is longed for; an aspiration

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.

A wild fancy or unrealistic hope

(archaic) Speed.

(Informal) One that is exceptionally gratifying, excellent, or beautiful

A jouster's path during a joust.

To experience a dream in sleep

(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.

To daydream

(falconry) The flight of a hawk.

To have a deep aspiration or hope

(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

To regard something as feasible or practical

To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

To experience a dream of while asleep

Synonym of serial

To conceive as possible; imagine

A race course: the ground run over.

To have as an aspiration or hope

A running; full speed; a rapid course.

To pass (time) idly or in reverie.

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.

Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

The flight of a hawk.

(figurative) A hope or wish.

To move or run rapidly.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.

The particular occupation for which you are trained

(intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.

The general progression of your working or professional life;

(intransitive) To hope, to wish.

Move headlong at high speed;

(intransitive) To daydream.

(transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).

(intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).

Ideal; perfect.

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; - in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.

To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; - often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.

To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.

To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; - often followed by an objective clause.

A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep;

A cherished desire;

Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake;

A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe);

A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality;

Someone of something wonderful;

Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

Experience while sleeping;