Martin Amis

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.

British Author

Christopher Alexander

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.

American Architect

Alexandra Kleeman

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.

American Author

Arnold Palmer

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.

American Golfer

Immanuel Velikovsky

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.

Historian

Lindsey Stirling

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.

American Musician

China Mieville

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.

English Writer

Carolyn Chute

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.

American Writer

Sharon Van Etten

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.

Philipp Meyer

I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.

Describes scenes with intense emotions or a mystical atmosphere.

Emotional Intensity

Use 'dreamlike' to express that something is pleasantly unusual or unexpected.

Unusual Reality

Often used in literature to enhance descriptions and create vivid imagery.

Literary Flair

 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

Frida Kahlo: The woman...

 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,

Art in the age of...

 everything just melts away and I enter a dreamlike world where I feel weightless and that I could play

Dreamlike