A fork of Rural Dictionary
Surrealism is an artistic and literary movement that seeks to explore and express the unconscious mind through dream-like, irrational, and fantastical imagery. It challenges conventional perceptions of reality, encourages free expression, and has had a profound influence on art, literature, and culture.
Sentence: Salvador Dalí's paintings are iconic examples of surrealism, featuring melting clocks and dream-like landscapes. The poet's work was heavily influenced by surrealism, often blending reality with fantastical elements. Surrealism seeks to tap into the unconscious mind, creating art that feels both bizarre and deeply meaningful. The film director used surrealism to craft scenes that defied conventional storytelling, immersing the audience in a dream-like experience. Surrealism emerged as a response to the horrors of World War I, offering a way to explore the deeper truths of the human psyche through art. The museum's new exhibit showcases the influence of surrealism on modern art, highlighting works that challenge our perception of reality.
1. Someone who tries to kill someone by making them do it themselves. 2. A psycho murderer who is also vegan.
The surreal estate agents have showed up to every one of my gigs this year, they want rent in blood.
November 11th 2022 11 11 1 1 11 11 you know you're in a virtual reality when your numbers and letters jump off your face of your phone and float on top of your phone and down the rabbit hole we go this is going to be one hell of a ride surreal I just want to cry
Did you just see that alien ship burst through the clouds over the beach in California it was so surreal!
Surreal stems from the word Surrealism. In Surrealism, art was used in a way that offered two pictures but illusioned to remain as one picture. In today's terms, "surreal" means "a state of mind that cannot believe what is happening is actually happening." Another example is when a person is hallucinating from the ingestion of a psychedelic. Though we cannot see what they are seeing, what they are seeing is very much real to them.
This is so surreal, "how did prisoners in California receive unemployment compensation during the pandemic?"
Dreamlike, hard to believe it’s actually happening… Mispronounced as “ so real” which isn’t a thing.
Running into my favourite celebrity on the street was surreal.