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Dreamed
Dreamt
Drempt
All are acceptable and have the same meaning. (The final two are alternative spellings, though dreamt is far more common.) "Dreamed" and "dreamt" may have equivalent meanings, but they don't have the same … feel. I suspect speakers/writers where English is a second language don't hear it the same as native speakers. Dreamt has a certain panache.
@tw I'm just glad I did not have to learn English as a second language. It's a real bear.
@tw
I kinda feel I would use dreamt to refer to a dream I had, and I would use dreamed to refer to aspirations or hopes that I had. For example:
I dreamt that I ate a giant marshmallow.
I dreamed there would be giant marshmallows here.
Is that weird?
@tw if you want to expand your vocabulary: overmorrow and ereyesterday are totally usable (the Dutch use them every day) words in English...