Dreamlike
adjective
Seems unreal or strange like something you would experience in a dream.
The beautiful sunset painted a dreamlike scene.
Often appears as...
- dreamlike state
- dreamlike quality
adjective
Seems unreal or strange like something you would experience in a dream.
The beautiful sunset painted a dreamlike scene.
Often appears as...
- dreamlike state
- dreamlike quality
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Describes scenes with intense emotions or a mystical atmosphere.
Her voice had a dreamlike quality, mesmerizing everyone in the room.
Pro Tip 2/3Unusual Reality
Use 'dreamlike' to express that something is pleasantly unusual or unexpected.
The silence in the forest felt dreamlike, a stark contrast to the city noise.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Flair
Often used in literature to enhance descriptions and create vivid imagery.
The novel's protagonist wandered through a dreamlike realm, filled with colors unseen.
Compare with
etherealfantastichallucinatoryillusoryimaginarymysticalsurrealtranscendent
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Video examples
Frida Kahlo: The woman...
But while surrealists used dreamlike images to explore the unconscious mind, Kahlo used them to represent her physical body and life experiences. Two of her most-explored experiences were her physical disabilities and her marriage. As a result of the bus accident, she experienced life-long health complications
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Art in the age of...
allowing the viewer to step into a dreamlike fusion of past and future New York. As our projects delve deeper into remembering and transmitting knowledge,
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With Just One Breath,...
everything just melts away and I enter a dreamlike world where I feel weightless and that I could play
Video examples
Frida Kahlo: The woman...
But while surrealists used dreamlike images to explore the unconscious mind, Kahlo used them to represent her physical body and life experiences. Two of her most-explored experiences were her physical disabilities and her marriage. As a result of the bus accident, she experienced life-long health complications
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Art in the age of...
allowing the viewer to step into a dreamlike fusion of past and future New York. As our projects delve deeper into remembering and transmitting knowledge,
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With Just One Breath,...
everything just melts away and I enter a dreamlike world where I feel weightless and that I could play
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Quote examples
Martin Amis
British Author
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.
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Christopher Alexander
American Architect
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
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Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.
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Arnold Palmer
American Golfer
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
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Immanuel Velikovsky
Historian
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Lindsey Stirling
American Musician
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
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China Mieville
English Writer
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
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Carolyn Chute
American Writer
Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
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Sharon Van Etten
American Musician
Noveller make soundscapes that are creepy, ethereal, really beautiful and all over the place. They can be intense, dark, and groovy but also dreamlike and happy.
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Philipp Meyer
American Writer
I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
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Martin Amis
British Author
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.
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Christopher Alexander
American Architect
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
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Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.
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Arnold Palmer
American Golfer
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
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Immanuel Velikovsky
Historian
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Lindsey Stirling
American Musician
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
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China Mieville
English Writer
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
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Carolyn Chute
American Writer
Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
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Sharon Van Etten
American Musician
Noveller make soundscapes that are creepy, ethereal, really beautiful and all over the place. They can be intense, dark, and groovy but also dreamlike and happy.
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Philipp Meyer
American Writer
I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
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