woolgathering

the state of being lost in thought my woolgathering was abruptly interrupted by a question from the flight attendant Synonyms daydreaming, study, trance, reverieRelated Words contemplation, meditation, musing; absentmindedness, absorption, abstraction, preoccupation; chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision