The phrase "fanciful dream" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a dream that is imaginative or unrealistic. Example: His head was filled with fanciful dreams of becoming a famous actor, but in reality, he struggled to land even small roles.
It was perhaps one fanciful dream too far.
The fanciful dream I once had of keeping the structure intact as a permanent New York playground for classical theater was of course a quixotic idea.
His most Marquezian book is his memoir, a fanciful dream journey through the lives of his parents and their relatives, eccentrics including an uncle who was killed when a hunting companion mistook him for a wild boar.
Always shaky on the infield-fly rule, I had a great Rolodex and understood the unforgiving rhythms of a profession that had no regard for holidays or weekends — and in the intervening years made the notion that a child could sit at the press table in Madison Square Garden seem a fanciful dream.
Providing the intellectual launching pad for not just the fund but also for Mr. Qaddafi's fanciful dream to remake Libya as an entrepreneurial hub for the region to rival Dubai was a paper he commissioned from Michael Porter, the international competitiveness expert at Harvard University, which extolled Libya's potential and its system of "popular democracy".
But fanciful dreams rarely outlast armaments.
Do too many cities aspire to fanciful dreams rather than fixing and maintaining what's there?
This might be dismissed as fanciful dreaming by an untried leader.
If you're a creative person, like an artist, you're more likely to have more creative, fanciful dreams, while individuals who experience psychosis have much more disassociated, bizarre dreams.
She draws the audience in, sharing the fanciful dreams she conjures up onstage, and many would identify with her image of Latin social dances, evoked on Wednesday night with the aid of a live band and a superb ballroom veteran, Sonny Allen.
