
Compared with that, becoming a successful novelist seems a perfectly reasonable plan.
I did know the meaning of the word pipedream, but not its origin. It comes from the visions or hallucinations experienced by people smoking opium pipes. Obvious when I think about it - presumably I never had before.
Here's an opium poppy, I grew this year. Even without smoking them they raise my spirits.
Do you have any pipedreams, or perefectly reasonable plans, you'd like to share?