dreamlike

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At COMA, Justin Williams’s canvases depict dreamlike scenes inspired by his life as a new father.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

He added: "The homely comfy environment like a chip shop that people are familiar with, and nostalgic old-school graphics really helps lean into an uncanny dreamlike feeling."

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Pablo Santiago’s lighting and Aaron Rhyne’s projections lend the production a dreamlike fluidity, ideal for a play that emanates as much from Salieri’s memory as from his unconscious.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Even so, the kaleidoscope of tales and vignettes, and the blurring of the banal with the macabre, produces a dusky, dreamlike atmosphere that envelopes one’s thoughts like a fine mist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

“I want to go, too,” I said, smiling, because the words I had just said, the whole conversation with Amaka, were dreamlike.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie