Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. The landscape within a dream
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Dreamscape may refer to:
- A compound word made up of the stems dream and landscape meaning a fantasy world or an abstract/oneiric land.
Dreamscape, built on the WorldsAway platform, is one of three distinctive graphical online chat environments, known as virtual zones—or VZones, that allow users to create an avatar to represent themselves in a 2D world and interact with other users and virtual items. Currently Dot8, Inc. develops, manages, and operates Dreamscape. It is a licensed and expanded version of Habitat, which was the first graphical virtual world when it was released by Lucasfilm Games in 1986.
Dreamscape is a 1984 science fiction adventure horror film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing.
Dreamscape is a progressive metal band from Munich, Germany.
Dreamscape is a 2007 science fiction thriller style black-and-white film noir written and directed by Daniel J. Fox as the first feature film made by UK based Indie production company Chat Noir Productions Ltd.
Dreamscape (stylized as dream:scape) is a first-person adventure video game, with puzzle elements, developed and published by Speedbump Studies. It was released worldwide on June 9, 2011 for iOS devices exclusively. The game does not follow traditional video game conventions, as it involves minimal interaction from the player and does not require choices to be made, and there are only basic puzzles for the player to complete. It instead places focus on its story, which is told through the perspective of a man called Wilson, who is caught in the limbo between life and death. Moments before his death, Wilson is transported to his own Dreamscape and is allowed to relive all his memories for one last time. While there he finally discovers the truth as to why his fiancee, Amelia, disappeared on the day of their wedding.
Dreamscape was developed over the course of three months by George Lippert, who also co-wrote the games script and voiced all male characters. Carol Mertz and Lippert's son Zane provided the voices for all other characters. Lippert designed the game around a 3D cabin model he made while learning to use the Unreal Engine. While the game was initially set to be released in April 2011, the release date was pushed back two months in order to fix a memory bug that prevented it from running on certain devices.
Upon release Dreamscape received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review score aggregator Metacritic. Reviewers generally praised the narrative and sound design, but criticized the uninspiring gameplay and repetitive nature of the game. It also became the second game to run on iOS devices using Unreal Engine 3 after 2010's Infinity Blade.
Usage examples of "dreamscape".
Continuous surges of emotion pulsed through her veins as the images wavered, causing the dreamscape to focus, then conceal, suspending Danna between reality and illusion.
Moving from the past of a dreamscape into the present was always unsettling.
Within seconds, the dreamscape became as tangible as the volume of poetry.
Like before, she felt personally disembodied, all her feelings and thoughts transferred to the dreamscape unfolding around her.
Yet, the domain of the dreamscape possessed her as unrecognizable images swirled, mingled, shivered, and flowed.
The dreamscape shifted again, and the boy was back on the balcony, older now but still filled with anger.
The dreamscape was gone, but the dark, unsettling sensations remained.
Danna tried to keep her own mind detached from the dreamscape, but it was impossible.
She was in a state of exalted awareness, her every sense tuned to the dreamscape unfolding around her.
The fearful images of the ring dreamscape superimposed themselves over the swirling colors as Danna struggled to be free.
One hue followed another until they were all swallowed by the indigo of twilight It was like stepping into a dreamscape, except this time, Danna knew it was real.
Unconscious of the tears that were wetting her face, she willed the dreamscape to last.
She lived alone at Dreamscape, the huge three-story mansion her father had built with the fortune he had made in fishing.
She was also well aware that her parents had been trying to get Isabel to sell Dreamscape and move into an apartment in Portland.
Madison, and by now everyone knows Isabel left Dreamscape to both of us.