Dreamlike

Usage examples of surreal.

Talking with him while he was in his enchanted form was positively surreal and a graphic reminder of the sort of world Brewster had wound up in.

The great prison spread out in a flat valley below them, brilliantly illuminated by the yellow glare of overhead lights, as surreal an industrial confection as a giant oil refinery.

The pearlescent glow had returned, giving an almost surreal aspect to this part of their journey.

As they passed the first shrouded alcove, Langdon felt taut, like a contestant on some surreal game show.

White water clattering stepwise down a granite slope, out of the mist - it was surreal.

DOOM PATROL is less a surreal fantasy than it is a naturalistic rendering of our supersaturated cultural space.

The light strengthened, and at length, trembling with synesthesia, Tahquil stepped from the cave-mouth into the open air of a surreal landscape.

Tree branches were twined in telephone lines that drooped asin a surreal work of art.

The surreal, Daliesque events of this particular night are forever seared on my consciousness.

He blinked several times to bring the surreal, Salvador Daliesque world into focus.

When the stylus fired a coherent beam of mesons at the border, the razor wire of disrupted graphs sliced fragments of their own surreal dimensions from the knot of virtual quarks and gluons making up each meson, and it was possible to exploit coherence effects to make some of these fragments act in unison to modify the border itself.

Their skeletal heads and sharp antlers added a surreal touch to the scene.

The smaller, more lithe dinosaurs that ran or stalked through the undergrowth would have seemed surreal: There was nothing like these bipedal runners in human times.

Shaman and Goddess paintings that have appeared on various posters, notecards and calendars -- surreal collages of images in swirling earth tones that seem to grow in complexity, the longer one studies them.

Figures locked in a macabre embrace, shadows and slivers of moonlight splashing them in surreal lighting.