reverie
REV-uh-reenounMeaning a pleasant daydream; being lost in happy thoughts
Memory hook RIVER-ie: drifting off by the RIVER. Lying by the lazy river, Lin watches the clouds float by and drifts into happy thoughts of summer. She is lost in a reverie.
The ringing phone snapped Grandpa out of his reverie.
In context Gazing out the classroom window at the falling snow, Dev drifted into a reverie about sledding, so lost in it that he didn’t hear the teacher call his name twice.
Similar daydream, trance, musing, dream
Opposite alertness, attention
From French rêverie, “dreaming,” from rêver, “to dream.”