"Dreams" is a song written by singer Stevie Nicks, for the group Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours. The song was the only U.S. number one hit for the group, and remains one of their best known songs.

The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording Rumours. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. Bass player John McVie was separating from his wife, keyboard player Christine McVie. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. "We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explains Buckingham to Blender Magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other."

Nicks wrote the song at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, in early 1976. "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers singer Stevie Nicks to Blender, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes."

"I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me," continues Nicks. "I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote 'Dreams' in about 10 minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me."

When Nicks played the song to the rest of the group, they decided to record it the following day. Only a basic track was recorded at Sausalito. Recording assistant Cris Morris remembers that "all (they) kept was the drum track and live vocal from Stevie — the guitars and bass were added later in Los Angeles."

Christine McVie described the song as having "just three chords and one note in the left hand" and "boring" when Nicks played a rough version on the piano. McVie changed her mind, after Lindsey "fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there’s a thread running through the whole thing."

"Dreams" was the second single from the Rumoursalbum in the US, and it reached the number one spot on June 18, 1977, and held it for one week. It went to #24 in the United Kingdom as the third single, following "Go Your Own Way" (#38) and "Don't Stop" (#32). A performance of the song on stage was used as the promotional video. Fleetwood Mac would not begin to make concept music videos until 1979.

"Dreams" is a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song by The Corrs. "Dreams" was originally recorded for "Legacy: A tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours" which features cover versions like "Don't stop" by Elton John, "You make loving fun" by Jewel and others from the Goo Goo Dolls and the Cranberries. It turned out to be the first big hit for the Corrs in the UK and the video won the "Best Adult Contemporary Video" award from Billboard magazine in 1998.

The Corrs had the honor of performing "Dreams" with Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac in their legendary concert at the Royal Albert Hall, on St Patrick's Day, 1998 (incidentally, that was also Caroline Corr's 25th birthday).

Tee's remix made "Dreams" one of the most successful Corrs singles ever: it reached #6 in the UK single charts and on the whole stayed in the charts for 10 weeks.

The "Dreams" video was urgently needed, similar to the video for "What Can I Do." The song had made the UK Radio One playlist (BBC One), and needed a video to go along with it. Director Dani Jacobs was originally unavailable because he had a previously scheduled shot in Canada, but he dumped it on the spot and flew to Singapore to shoot "Dreams." When he arrived there, he found that his ideas of a "dreamy, oriental" feel for the video were trashed by Singapore's western looks. Thankfully, the crew found the Thian Hock Keng Buddhist temple in the Telok Ayer Street in Chinatown. The location was found, yet the crew had picked one of the hottest, most humid days of the year (April 10, 1998), so the Corrs were downing copious amounts of "Evian", spending time in the air-conditioned trailers and Andrea even filmed the entire video with her dress unzipped at the back to keep perspiration at bay.

In 2005, Nicks contributed new vocals to a remake of the song by DJ and house music duo Deep Dish. The song appears on their album George Is On, and was a top twenty UK Singles Chart hit and climbed to number 26 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.