a long ivolved

[ostap77]

How would you explaine the meaning of " a long involved dream"?

[Munch]

How would you explaine the meaning of " a long involved dream"?

long = it lasted for a long time.

involved = complex, many things happened.

This phrase is often used as, "a long, involved process"

For example:

"Learning English is a long, involved process."
"Growing crystals is a long, involved process."

So, one of those dreams where you start off on the moon, competing in a cheeseburger eating completion with your old postman, then a half bird / half walrus climbs out of the ground and starts talking like a basketball coach and you realize you have to get back to Earth to... etc.

[ostap77]

long = it lasted for a long time.

involved = complex, many things happened.

This phrase is often used as, "a long, involved process"

For example:

"Learning English is a long, involved process."
"Growing crystals is a long, involved process."

So, one of those dreams where you start off on the moon, competing in a cheeseburger eating completion with your old postman, then a half bird / half walrus climbs out of the ground and starts talking like a basketball coach and you realize you have to get back to Earth to... etc.

Could it mean that there were private things in this kind of a dream?

[Munch]

Could it mean that there were private things in this kind of a dream?

It does not suggest that. But it does not mean there were no private things. No information either way.

[Rover_KE]

I just want to emphasise that long and involved need to be separated by a comma in this case (as Munch did, of course).

Rover

[Munch]

I just want to emphasise that long and involved need to be separated by a comma in this case (as Munch did, of course).

Rover

Yes, thanks Rover. Otherwise it suggests that "long" is modifying "involved" which is not the case.

[riquecohen]

Could it mean that there were private things in this kind of a dream?

Dreams always contain "private things."

[Munch]

Dreams always contain "private things."

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