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Angliholic  +  354103 Sun, 22 Apr 07 02:05 PM

He was lost in reverie and forgot to have dinner.

I wonder whether lost in reverie means lost in deep thought/medication or lost in fantasy/magical thinking.
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Francesca  +  354106 Sun, 22 Apr 07 02:15 PM
Hey Angliholic Smile [:)]
as far as I know 'reverie' is a daydream, a dream with open eyes, a kind of fantasy
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Philip  +  354192 Sun, 22 Apr 07 06:30 PM
 Angliholic wrote:

He was lost in reverie and forgot to have dinner.

I wonder whether lost in reverie means lost in deep thought/medic t ation or lost in fantasy/magical thinking.

With

With 'medication', the proper word would be 'hallucination' rather than 'reverie'. Wink [;)]
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