dreamlike

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Originating from Merced, Calif., this Central Valley post-punk band radiates a hazy, dreamlike sound, so much that one of their most popular tracks is titled “zzz.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 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

Her impossible, dreamlike vistas put a trippy, esoteric spin on familiar devotional motifs while entering into a conversation with the history of art.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

A fireplace opposite the bed roared with a warm and inviting fire, and a memory came to him of a strange, dreamlike week visiting his grandfather in America when he was six.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick