An artist, writer, or filmmaker who creates strange, dreamlike works that don't follow logic or reality, often exploring the unconscious mind.
From French 'surréalisme,' meaning 'super-realism,' coined by André Breton in 1924. The movement was inspired by Freud's ideas about dreams and the unconscious.
Surrealists were obsessed with dreams because Freud had just convinced the world that dreams held hidden truths—Salvador Dalí literally painted his nightmares as if they were photographs, making the impossible look real.
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