Love Is But A Dream Love is an emotion, a feeling comprised of thoughts and actions about a person that sparks a part of the imagination that causes the feeling of love. Love is just an imaginative view of a being to whom the person infatuated by the feeling gives credit to the creation of love. Love is a form of imagination. And technically when we are in love, we imagine it. Love is like a dream, created by our minds to protect us from the harsh reality that is out daily lives, giving us hope. Love is like a dream because it is a mental defense mechanism that our mind uses to give is an escape within ourselves, an escape to happiness. So love is a dream created by our imagination during our hours of consciousness.