dream logic

Nonsense that connects

Dream logic is the internal coherence of dreams—where impossible things feel natural and contradictions go unquestioned.

A person can be two people at once, locations shift without movement, and the dreamer accepts it all.

The term extends to fiction, film, or art that operates by similar rules: The movie follows dream logic rather than plot.

It describes any situation where normal reasoning is suspended but an intuitive sense of meaning persists.

Opposites
rationality/coherence

dream logicrational thought

Logic-based mental process

logical reasoning · reason · linear thinking · logical consistency · formal logic

reasoning method

dream logicscientific method

Structured process for investigation

cognitive state

dream logiclucidity

Clearness of mind

clear-headedness · alertness · presence of mind · groundedness · reality

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