Dreamtime
- noun
- /ˈdriːmtaɪm/
- Literature
- But when Dee is wrecking up the Dreamtime (Fury), his dialogue contains multiple and repeated variants of the verb "to see/watch/show" ("Show yourself;
Examples
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As she listened to the gentle waves, she found herself drifting into a peaceful dreamtime filled with vibrant colors and soft whispers.
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Well, that's an expanded Dreamtime if you will.
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She'd raised Clay in a world in which dreamtime could hardly be distinguished from the waking state.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the twilight, crumpled on his father's shoulder, the baby seemed to slip into a kind of dreamtime.
Fiction book (1990) -
During his meditation, he often wandered into a dreamtime, where reality blended seamlessly with imagination.
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After a long day, she liked to escape into dreamtime, where she could explore fantastical landscapes unhindered by the constraints of reality.
Synonyms
Thinking about things you want or imagine while you are awake
A scene that feels like being in a dream
An imagined perfect place that exists only in dreams
A place in your mind where you imagine things
How Dreamlike
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dreamtime comes from the words dream ('images or stories while sleeping') and time ('a period'), so imagine a special 'time' made of dreams. That's why Dreamtime is used for a peaceful, dream-like period or state where imagination and memory mix.