In our collective cultural imagination, however, Oxbridge means the dreaming spires - a kind of massive Bullingdon Club where rich undergraduates still flaunt their boaters and blazers, and dotty dons get sozzled every night on the college port (while hoping to avoid the Inspector Morse-style murders in the quad).
"I was at IIT nearly 30 years ago, but just last week I woke up sweating in the middle of the night dreaming that I was back there sitting for one of those killer exams, " admits Sudhakar Shenoy, the CEO of IMC, a software services company in McLean, Virginia.
When it senses the person has stopped dreaming, the alarm goes off.
We predict the future by dreaming big, but sometimes the small innovations and the transformation of something like a phone into a portable computer are what really change the world.
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As the Chinese say, if you want to sleep in the same bed you have to be sure you're dreaming the same dreams.
This might not seem a big deal, but it is the first time science has proved what was hitherto mere speculation: that the brain, when dreaming, behaves like the brain when awake.
Alongside hits like In The Morning and Dreaming Of You, there was a good crowd response for the new tracks like Green and Rovin'.
The days of parents dreaming their child can be the next Junior Seau are growing shorter and shorter.
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On the way out the children seemed thrilled with the experience, a few undoubtedly already dreaming of the spotlight themselves.
At the start of the race, Rose to Gold slammed into the Pletcher-trained Dreaming of Julia, severely hampering the race's 8-5 favorite's chances.
The Obama Administration, dreaming of a million electric cars on the road by 2015, loaned Ford the money to help it pay for development of hybrids and EVs, and to retool its factories to produce smaller, cleaner vehicles.
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The Super Eages scored three times in 20 first half minutes to take control of the contest and leave manager Stephen Keshi dreaming of repeating the triumph he pulled off as a player in 1994.
Lucid dreaming refers to the ability to become aware during a dream that you are in fact, dreaming, and being able to exert some control over what happens in the dream.
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Taride spent his teenage years hanging around the beach and dreaming of being a musician.
Les Miserables producer Cameron Mackintosh said being nominated for an Oscsar was "dreaming the dream".
"The workaholic is on the ski slopes dreaming about getting back to work, " says Robinson.
How can so many people, and there's hundreds of thousands of people who have experienced this, how can we all be dreaming the same thing and describe the exact same thing?
Another, who at the end of all this would become the battalion's most decorated soldier, hadn't yet started dreaming about the people he had killed and wondering if God was going to ask him about the two who had been climbing a ladder.
More likely than hooking your brain to a machine, though, in my view would be the development of a drug that allows for lucid dreaming like in the film Inception.
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To see many of the best people from that reservoir -- the ones who stopped dreaming of their potential to serve and took real action -- take a look at those volunteers in the Marines and the Peace Corps.
Of course, while dreaming about the high end is nice, more reasonable budgets may require some scaling back.
Etats-Unis is an Upper East Side gem of American cooking, and you'll be dreaming of the desserts for days.
The Dream:ON app monitors movements to sense when the sleeper has started dreaming.
The Federal Reserve is dreaming if it thinks it can hold off remedial action for its inflationary miscalculation until after November.
With damp eyes, Miss Monsoon stoops slightly to receive her tiara, and begins dreaming of the next pageant she needs to win.
If you spent Monday through Wednesday of last week dreaming of the feast to come, you may have missed out on devouring some fascinating stories.
Six months after graduation, I have found the job I was dreaming of, i.e. an in-house corporate communications function with regional responsibilities in Latin America for a multinational company.
Ecomagination was a couple of years in the making, the result of "dreaming sessions" with heads of energy and heavy-industry companies at GE's executive training center in Crotonville, N.
First, the global economic playing field is being leveled, and millions of people who were out of the game - from China, India and the former Soviet empire - are now walking onto the field, each dreaming of a house, a car, a toaster and a microwave.
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