dream / CL:場|场[chang2],個|个[ge4] / (bound form) to dream

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) once had a very strange dream (梦). He was occupying the engine's toilet ((e)ng4) and saw bats (夕) sitting in the forest trees (林) surrounding him. Suddenly he came to the realization that just like the bats occupying the trees, people could reclaim the streets through sit-ins. Gandhi was so impressed by this dream that he dedicated his life to this mission.

梦 character breakdown

dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.

Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
woods / forest / CL:片[pian4] / circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / a collection (of similar things)

= : Li Qingzhao (li) wants to plant a small forest (林) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). She already put up two Christmas trees (木).

Characters with 梦 as component

梦 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 梦

to dream about (sth or sb) / to see in a dream
to sleepwalk / to journey in a dream
spring dream / short-lived illusion / erotic dream
the land of dreams / slumberland
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), American actress
somnambulism / sleepwalking
wet dream; nocturnal emission
wet dream / nocturnal emission (ejaculation)
fantasy / illusion / dream
night demon (malign spirit believed to plague people during sleep)
Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括[Shen3 Kuo4], book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass
Menlo Park, New Jersey, the home of Thomas Edison's research laboratory
somnambulism / sleepwalking
a beautiful dream is hard to realize (idiom)
grand dreams / unrealistic ideas (idiom)

Sentences with 梦

zhe̅n
shì
zuò
mèng