daydream vs nightmare

daydream

noun
  • A spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality. 

verb
  • To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather. 

nightmare

noun
  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

How often have the words daydream and nightmare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )