Having qualities similar to a dream, such as being hazy, surreal, or seeming unreal.
From dream + -like (having the qualities of). The -like suffix comes from Old English gelīc, meaning 'similar' or 'of the same form,' and has been a productive suffix in English for over a thousand years.
Salvador Dalí and surrealist artists deliberately created 'dreamlike' images by painting melting objects and impossible scenes, tapping into the brain's own visual logic from REM sleep to create art that feels familiar yet alien.
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