What are the implications of the use of words like "daydreaming" and "dreamed" in the Odyssey?

In book 1, Telemachus is
described as a "boy daydreaming" (line 145) while he sits among the suitors vying for
his mother's hand. He is dreaming about his father's return as Athena first arrives. He dreams
that his father returns to displace the suitors. In this daydream, Telemachus is a boy who must
depend on his father to restore Ithaca to its rightful rulers. Athena, disguised as Mentes,
encourages Telemachus, who is in a deep depression, to tell the suitors to leave his house and
to go out in search of his father.

"Daydreaming" has theof inaction
and passivity. Telemachus cannot yet imagine doing anything active to help his father return or
to kick out the suitors from his house. Instead, he resorts only to imagining a better reality
for himself and his mother, Penelope. It is also notable that he is described as a
"boy." After he is inspired by Athena to go abroad in search of news about his father,
he begins to become more maturea process that is completed when he and his father take on the
suitors.

In the Odyssey, characters who dream are not
active and do not have the favor of the gods. Once they have won the gods' favor, they turn to
active pursuits and to engaging with life to achieve their goals.