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单词 dreamscape
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dreamscapen.

Brit. /ˈdriːmskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈdrimˌskeɪp/, Australian English /ˈdriːmskæep/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dream n.2, -scape comb. form.
Etymology: < dream n.2 + -scape comb. form. Compare earlier dreamland n. and also dream landscape n. at dream n.2 and adj. Compounds 5. Compare also earlier dream-picture n. at dream n.2 and adj. Compounds 5.
Originally Australian.
1. A landscape or scene that is reminiscent of a dream. rare before late 20th cent.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > dream landscape
dreamscape1858
1858 R. Rowe Peter 'Possum's Portfolio 129 The moon arises in beauty, and turns barque and sea, and sky, into a sweet, sad dream-scape.
1977 New York Mag. 14 Nov. 70/2 Mitre Park is mirrored in the incredible blue of Milford Sound. This misty dreamscape can change to brilliant sun and rainbows in a matter of minutes.
1992 R. Harris Fatherland iv. 258 The yard was vast—a dreamscape in the orange sodium lighting—at its centre, the one patch of brilliant white.
2007 Condé Nast Traveller May 110/2 As I drive through this dusty dreamscape, I keep imagining how the nascent Las Vegas must have looked..in 1946.
2. A landscape or image seen in a dream. Also: the world of dreams perceived as a landscape; (sometimes) spec. an image or images perceived in a hallucinogen-induced state. Cf. dreamland n. 1.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > image which appears in
phantom1557
phantasma1598
dream vision1702
dream figurec1819
dream imagec1819
dream-picture1840
dream landscape1865
dreamscape1876
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > world of
dream world1817
dreamland1826
dreamscape1967
1876 Austral. Jrnl. May 505/1 And one face from out the number, Smiles through the dreamscape yet.
1885 P. J. Holdsworth Station Hunting on Warrego 34 For dreamscapes came and went of years when life Was like some scroll, fast-shut, of wizard-lore Mysterious and unknown, in dim vague dreams.
1913 Hearst's Mag. Oct. 522/2 It had the hushed bizarre quality of those dreamscapes through which one walks tiptoe and solitary, dreading what may lurk around the next corner.
1966 Life 25 Mar. 31/2 There are psychedelic corporation presidents, military officers, doctors, teachers—each with a reason to risk a voyage on the unpredictable terrain of the deep brain dreamscape.
1966 Amer. Speech 41 156 New -scape combinations..are wirescape..; dreamscapes ‘the hallucinatory results of LSD, peyote, and the like’, [etc.].
1967 Guardian 27 Dec. 5/5 The audience whose adoration has set the Beatles free among the dreamscapes whose poignancy their photography caught so well.
1987 R. McCammon Swan Song iv. xxv. 237 This is a dreamscape—a picture in my mind, that's all.
2011 New Yorker 11 July 93/3 The disaffiliated flâneur..creeps through the teeming city, or through the dreamscapes of his own mind.
3. A representation of a dream in a painting or other work of art; a work of art which depicts a dream or has dreamlike qualities.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > description of dream
dreamscape1980
1946 Bull. Mus. Mod. Art 14 16/1 His poetic imagination has created a strange world of sentiment and fantasy which..was a prefiguration of the dreamscapes of surrealism.
1962 Musical Times 103 778/1 La Mer is not so much a sea-scape as a dream-scape in which various phantasies of the subconscious are depicted under a naturalistic disguise.
1980 N.Y. Times 1 June vii. 30/4 Dreams are..difficult to make convincing in fiction. There is an added problem with Kavan's dreamscapes in that they are so clearly..composed at the typewriter.
1992 Washington CityPaper 21 Feb. 36/2 Its [sc. surrealism's] popular manifestations were the dreamscapes of Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte.
2008 S. Lerer Children's Lit. viii. 176 Part satire, part dreamscape, the novel tells the story of young Tom, a chimney sweep who..is transformed by woodland fairies into..a water-baby.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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