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You can say I had a dream and you can say I had a nightmare. But then you can say He is dreaming, yet you cannot say He is nightmaring....you have to say He is having a nightmare.

Why is that? How did the one shift without the same thing happening to the other? When did this shift occur? Or was dream always a verb? Was there a ever a verb for nightmaring?

You can say I had a dream and you can say I had a nightmare. But then you can say He is dreaming, yet you cannot say He is nightmaring....you have to say He is having a nightmare.

Why is that? How did the one shift without the same thing happening to the other? When did this shift occur? Or was dream always a verb? Was there a ever a verb for nightmaring?

You can say I had a dream and you can say I had a nightmare. But then you can say He is dreaming, yet you cannot say He is nightmaring....you have to say He is having a nightmare.

Why is that? How did the one shift without the same thing happening to the other? When did this shift occur? Or was dream always a verb? Was there a ever a verb for nightmaring?

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How did "dream" become a verb without the same thing happening to "nightmare"?

You can say I had a dream and you can say I had a nightmare. But then you can say He is dreaming, yet you cannot say He is nightmaring....you have to say He is having a nightmare.

Why is that? How did the one shift without the same thing happening to the other? When did this shift occur? Or was dream always a verb? Was there a ever a verb for nightmaring?