fever-dream
Surreal sick vision
A fever-dream is a vivid, disorienting dream experienced during illness, characterized by strange imagery and irrational logic.
The term extends to anything surreal or hallucinatory: The whole evening felt like a fever-dream.
It describes experiences, artworks, or situations that seem bizarre, fragmented, or dreamlike in their strangeness.
Acute mental disorientation
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- bizarreStrikingly unconventional
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
distorted · incoherent · vivid · disorienting · phantasmagoric · twisted · strange · warped
Bodily disorder or disease
- sweatingMoisture through pores
- chillsShivering spells from illness
- restlessUnable to be still
- tossingLight underhand throw
bedridden · burning · fitful · aching · shivering · delirious · clammy · flushed
Creator of dreamlike art
- DaliSurrealist painter's surname
- KafkaCzech-Jewish literary surname
- experimentalTesting new methods
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
avant-garde · visionary · trippy · Bosch · artistic · unconventional · stream-of-consciousness · imaginative
delirium
Acute mental disorientation
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- bizarreStrikingly unconventional
nightmarish · distorted · incoherent · vivid · disorienting · phantasmagoric · twisted · strange · warped · illogical
sickness
Bodily disorder or disease
tossing · bedridden · burning · fitful · aching · shivering · delirious · clammy · flushed · parched
surrealist
Creator of dreamlike art
- DaliSurrealist painter's surname
- KafkaCzech-Jewish literary surname
- experimentalTesting new methods
psychedelic · avant-garde · visionary · trippy · Bosch · artistic · unconventional · stream-of-consciousness · imaginative · Fellini
intensity
Strength or force level
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- frenzyViolent mental agitation
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
fixation · manic · frantic · consuming · relentless · wild · unhinged · passionate · driven · exhausting
fever-dreamclear thinking
lucidity · clarity · clear-headedness · rational thought · logical reasoning
fever-dreamreality
What actually exists
waking life · actuality · objectivity · truth · empirical observation
fever, dream, fevers, fevered, feverish, feverishly, dreams, dreamed, dreamt