dream sequences
Nocturnal mental cinema
Dream sequences are portions of a narrative—in film, literature, or television—depicting a character's dream.
They typically signal their nature through visual or stylistic cues: distorted imagery, unusual lighting, or surreal logic.
The sequence often reveals psychological depth or foreshadows events: The dream sequence showed her deepest fears.
Plural of dream sequence.
- dreamlikeHazy and fantastical
- montageAssembled sequence of images
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- dreamscapeImagined realm during sleep
symbolism · subconscious · repressed memories · ambiguity · foreshadowing · narrative device · visual distortion · flashback · prophetic dreams · time distortion · inner world · unconscious mind · Fellini · Haruki Murakami · inception · slow motion · lucid dreaming · alternate reality
- dreamsnightmare, dreaming, daydream, nightmares, dreams
- Bollywooditem number, song and dance, dance numbers, masala, melodrama
- Memory Themesflashbacks, amnesia, memory loss, nostalgia, deja vu
- surrealismdreamscapes, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, automatic writing, automatism
- visionsvisions, apparition, dreams, apparitions, divine visions
- ExpressionismEdvard Munch, The Scream, Der Blaue Reiter, German Expressionism, woodcuts
dream sequenceswaking life
Conscious daily experience
documentary footage · objective reality · live action · physical world