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"People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen in life that's unreal."
"I saw a meme in one of my dreams last night that had comus but he was a catboy and it said 'catnip got me acting unwise.'"
"'Inception' explored the nature of reality with a film structure that reflects the surreal illusions of its subject matter."
"I've got an axe in one hand, and King Kong in the other. Just a standard day in the kitchen."
"We are living in a surrealistic world right now; nothing makes sense anymore."
"The master and Margarita... it's got five or six things going on at the same time, all of which are preposterous and surreal."
"Surrealism doesn't always have to mean something, as often it's used to undermine and confuse our rational impulse to project meaning onto everything."
"Atlanta uses surrealism to bring our focus back to reality, by using the surreal to disrupt the habitual way we look at and think about certain topics."
"The aim of surrealism is not simply to create a new formal culture, it's to use art to change culture through revealing its true structure."
"Walking into the Javits Center, which looked like an emergency hospital after an apocalypse, it looked like it should be in a science fiction movie."
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
"Maybe we're all in one big simulation... everything's crazy, 2020 makes no sense."
"This delightful fever dream of like zero-depth madness."
"Man, what a great take on surrealism here, just really playing with the in and out of focus of the different areas, different layers."
"400 years after Bosch painted The Garden of Earthly Delights, it will inspire the Surrealist movement and in particular Salvador Dali."
"Surrealism was born out of the absurdity of what these wars put people through."
"Iconic, yes. He is one of the defining artists of the surrealist movement."
"It's actually a little surreal how Tears of the Kingdom is finally here."
"It's the story of David Haller, an almost all-powerful, ESP-fueled mutant, who also happens to be a schizophrenic, and it leans hard into the nonsensical, bizarre, and just plain weird."
"Haruki Murakami's writing feels like you're dreaming, it's surreal and magical."
"Exploring a weird surreal dream world... small but cult following drawn to its mysterious nature."
"Standing amidst the heap of lifeless serpent bodies, the woman erupted into laughter, unable to contain her delight."
"When animated characters enter the real world, we get to enjoy a surreal blend of reality as the show we know and love gets a live-action adaptation."
"The bittersweet romantic drama 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is a collaboration between surrealism experts Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry."
"Even the Sky Box itself looks like it was generated by one of those things things like it's close to what a city looks like I guess but paired with this surreal Skyline something feels so off."
"Our rules and logic simply do not apply here."
"Last time we did the 2004 Yume Niki, which was a sort of strange surreal exploration game."
"That's like a Dali painting of a social situation."
"A just world is nothing without the dinosaurs."
"It felt like Inception or something, and everybody's just doing their own thing."
"No banana skin would become sleep without uplifting graffiti."
"Dream sequences in films are like drug sequences, another area you're allowed to go all out."
"The sky darkening with millions of metallic teardrops."
"But the amazing and distorted and tattered soundscapes that Liz pulls together on this record, along with her disembodied alien ghosts, leave ocol work together in an incredibly hypnotic, surreal, and unsettling fashion."
"Being John Malkovich investigates the most ridiculous fantasy conceit: a door that's a portal into John Malkovich's consciousness."
"Anthropomorphic animals in both art and media sounds like a surreal concept but also seems very normal to us."
"Crayon blue skies are at least as cyberpunk as eating a bulgogi taco in the rain under a clear umbrella."
"We are literally living in a movie, nothing is making sense."
"The dream angle is in turn very heavily assisted by the movie's unique visual style... incredibly stylized and surreal in a somewhat Wes Anderson sort of way."
"Sayo Oshi's overwhelming atmosphere makes surreal sequences as terrifying as they are engrossing."
"Dreams are most profound when they seem the most crazy."
"It can be a funny game, brimming with dark humor and using the surreal nature of the planes."
"As a Jew watching Magneto fight Nazi robots with a train was unbelievable"
"The storylines got unabashedly weirder and more surreal."
"I feel like the past couple years have just kind of felt like The Truman Show."
"That's just going to be kind of surreal if we're actually getting like new content of Suge just talking about [__] every week."
"Obama: I forgot to water my baguettes. Hydrate us, Ryan."
"When two rocks love each other very much, a stork will deliver a smaller rock to them."
"The whole movie looks like it may be a dream."
"I do feel like I'm living out a dream. It's weird... like, that Hartley, how was that here?"
"You don't need a little bit of death this month, just go get a tooth."
"404 KPH: surreal, crazy physics-y time trials racing inspired by Trackmania."
"There's something happening to women that when they go to sleep, they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze and when they're sleeping, they're going to another like better place."
"We're living in a little bit of a crazy time, a surreal moment, you might say, in American history and in American politics."
"Stumbling upon Prara is like diving into a Salvador Dolly painting."
"Dali's name became synonymous with surrealism."
"Here, we are granted access into this world. We paid the greatest attention to food, and the results are triumphant, transcendent, and positively Dalinesque."
"There's some kind of in-between dream world that Mel is reaching out to Dan through."
"Invader Zim's weird surrealist nature is so appealing to me."
"This is so dystopian, you cannot leave unless you've picked up every crayon."
"Angel's Egg feels like a drug-induced trip of psychedelic imagery while also being relentlessly meaningful."
"Plastic flamingos have an impressive Arsenal with which to attack their victims."
"It's just very surreal it really is still remember vividly as if it was yesterday moving into this home."
"It's a very surreal scene, especially because fellow clown Gary... is also there."
"Violence Voyager, it's like a fever dream, the pieces don't make sense."
"This surreal landscape becomes even more striking once you see the dunes."
"It's almost like we're living in a surreal time."
"Father Ted's sharp-witted, silly, surrealistic, and even slapstick humor encapsulates a certain essence of Irish culture for outsiders."
"The Adventures of Pete and Pete is a show that really captures what it’s like to be a kid; it doesn’t glorify childhood, it puts it in your face and reminds you of what growing up was like using surreal concepts and abstract ideas."
"You don't even question the donkey ears, man. This world is so used to the weird [__]."
"What would you do if the world around you was as strange and contradictory as ancient ruins filled with advanced technology?"
"The surrealism of Quake 1 intensified to such remarkable effect just isn't quite part of the Quake 2 aesthetic."
"Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is like if WarioWare, Mario Party, and Cool Runnings all formed a Blood Pact to create a surreal collection of minigames."
"It's the type of surreal comedy that audiences seem to really respond to today."
"Beneath the tides of sleep and time, strange fish are moving."
"Death Stranding is not just weird because it's a big expensive walking game with us worried about ghost babies that has a multiverse involving a dinosaur afterlife, it's also weird because it's a big expensive game of freestyle jazz Expressionism."
"The loneliest tree: a surreal sight in the Dead Sea."
"In Lamageddon, when the llama guy lays the llama eggs, that part was pure cinema gold."
"Primal is the gorgeous, breathtaking, out of this world surreal, yet grounded in some substance of reality visuals that we get."
"These are the best parts of the movie as it breaks away from reality and weaves together these big catchy songs and surreal imaginative visuals."
"It's like spongebob in real life they're literally interacting with like humans and stuff."
"No she knows any ocean my Ebola believe a skeptic imagine a particular instant feel it kids ten fish super agent the burn."
"We cannot make this up at all. It is like we're watching a horror film."
"Now, I'm not personally into the make something that isn't real look real. I kind of like it when it's a little bit surreal myself."
"It is surreal to be covering new Futurama on this channel."
"To me, it felt like I had walked onto a movie set; everything had a slightly unrealistic quality to it."
"I lived for that kind of surreal, out of the mainstream experience."
"Window window window, no one really gets a bed now."
"I love this cut to death and back and how it breaks away from reality to show that this guy somehow still sees that we were looking at him."
"Rey lands outside the giant cube floating above the ground and makes her way through the same underground passages, the cube composed of black rock floats several meters above the ground."
"The weirdness is breaching the levees and flooding the real world."
"Imagine if Elon Musk tweeted about AMC tonight, like imagine we live, we all know life isn't real, this is all obviously a simulation."
"Link's Awakening is weird. It's delightfully surreal."
"Oh God, this hotel is operated by skeletons."
"Welcome to the eyeball zone, where we enmesh the flesh of small leftist content creators with our own, merging into one mockery of God's creation."
"Real life is a kind of Survival game, a Sandbox game you already play it, you can go outside right now and strip naked or you can buy 112 oranges and violently throw them at your neighbor's house."
"There is no me, there's no you, we're not here. This is a dream."
"High realism or dreamy realism creates a feeling beyond typical realism, almost surreal."
"There will be a banana warfare but you might not live to tell the tale."
"How big does he go with it? He's kind of a level of surreal that's above the jokes."
"Super Mario Brothers has a surreal quality that makes it unique."
"It just looked like some kind of whimsical alien landscape."
"View of heaven, museum, view of heaven comes to protection and also comes to John Trump. The action is right there."
"It felt like a dream that was almost too real to be a dream."
"The lamb lies down on broadway... is a surreal fantasia of an album."
"Dali himself had become synonymous with surrealism, and it would stay that way long after the surrealist movement had died."
"It's surreal, all planned out and linked together."
"There’s something so surreal about this age of creating an aesthetic out of every single possible thing."
"As the film becomes crazier in its blurring of reality, every character psychologically unravels for a strange and dark climax."
"It uses surrealism to get its point across."
"It was deeply surreal to receive a card like that for preventing the ending of someone's life."
"Coming into this welcoming environment of all these bands I look up to... it's awesome but it's weird."
"It's terrifying at the same time extremely joyful. It's surreal."
"The episode ends with the babies trapping the man in his own dreams forever."
"Schiaparelli started to employ surrealism into her fashion."
"Fueled by curiosity, he reaches out to touch the mirror, only to find his hand passing right through it."
"The landscape of Cappadocia, resembling an abandoned alien desert, showcases fields frozen in time and rocky spikes jutting from the earth."
"It kind of felt like a dream, to be honest."
"It's so surreal and crazy to me right now because, truth be told, this time yesterday, I did not think I would be here right now."
"It's really crazy that I have two kids, like I don't know what's going on."
"It's just a very different experience from reading Tolstoy; you kind of know what you're going to get, you're very much grounded, but in Dickens, like, men can just turn into chairs."
"They loomed huge, remote, and mysterious out of the mist of the early morning like the vague recollections of a fantastic dream."
"I remember standing on stage, looking over, and there's David Bowie singing my song with me, and I thought, 'How the hell is this happening?'"
"I found it surreal and fascinating."
"I've been on YouTube for 11 years. It's surreal."
"I feel like someone just dropped me into a video game; it's nuts."
"Seeing Aaron and Zeke standing in shots that we saw when we first started this series might have been the most surreal thing I've ever experienced in anime."
"That's like a real surreal experience, something I did not think would ever happen."
"The sight was so surreal, so out of place, it took me a moment to fully comprehend what I was seeing."
"What the heck was that? Nobody knows you like I do, it's surreal."
"I feel like I'm in a video game. I'm in GTA."
"I still feel like wow, like I'm around people I used to watch on TV."
"all around me were Crimson clouds mountains a drift in a sea of screaming Madness"
"Isabelle's vital organs become visible."
"It's a surreal experience to go from dream to reality."
"I dreamed of a Man Without a Face waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung on his shoulder perched a drowned Crow with seaweed hanging from his wings."
"This reality is too weird, this reality is way too weird."
"It's a movie, dude. It's a [ __ ] movie. There's a camera crew here. This is not real. Sometimes I gotta remind myself of stuff like that."
"They feel like they're floating in butter. Is that butter?"
"I think I just had so many Pinch Me moments where I was like is if you're playing with these games."
"I had a curious dream... talking to someone... very odd bit of a mix-up."
"I mean, it's got to be so surreal to actually be free after all they've known their whole lives is to be slaves."
"How we doing? This is out of this world. Today is definitely the craziest Day Ever Had."
"Surreal moment. Thanks for sharing it with me."
"That to me was the most beautiful, surreal, and powerful scene, a hundred percent."
"Cow and Chicken: Strange and entertaining."
"That tree is upside down and moving fast. This is all wrong," he realizes.
"The fever dream atmosphere just grows stronger with all these strange-ass choices."
"It makes me feel like I am full of helium."
"The sky gods aren't hiding anymore, a huge 2D hand reaches from the heavens."
"And overthinking it now, and they drive out into the countryside as the chain of doubles joins hands across their new world."
"It's still surreal to me that so many of you watch my videos."
"I feel like I'm living in a crazy timeline."
"It's an incredible, if impossible image; a woman appearing from within the lake, rising up from the bottom and breaking through the surface."
"It feels as if it's not real, too good to be true."
"I never forgot that. I guess you didn't. Oddly the wall was all shimmery and kind of sparkly and it went through it."
"It would be far easier to consider this a dream."
"Life just went crazy. It's like I was on an LSD, wasn't taking LSD, but the whole world went different. I was like, this is surreal. I mean, I was everywhere. Everywhere. I was like, I was, you know?"
"It's just going to be like an alternate dimension."
"So, in a lot of those visions, the next thing I remember was being in this sort of desert."
"It felt like he was having a fun dream."
"There's nothing quite like finding a place that feels so out of place."
"Welcome to Reed Hillview, this is surreal."
"Seeing the likes of the Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, and Taz appearing in the crowd on Monday Night Raw and even at one point jumping the railings to get involved in a brawl was truly surreal."
"I feel like I'm dreaming. Just wow."
"The support that I have received, you guys, is surreal. I mean, it is so surreal to me."
"If I saw a giant floating stone head, I would probably worship it too."
"When that day came, he was visited by a small pale man in a black suit."
"I'm feeling on some kind of weird level right now."
"So to think that I painted a car on television so recognizable that's in Switzerland now is actually just kind of a lot to wrap your mind around."
"It's so surreal being on this calm lake."
"Our stage show was very surrealistic."
"Their private life was even more bizarre than Dali's art."
"The plot of the film is like a fever dream brought on by snorting too much tinsel."
"It's almost like we've been living in a TV show."
"Nothing makes sense around here, right? You just gotta roll with it."
"It just gives me that feel of those kind of movies like the over-the-top silly, no reality rules at all."
"it was so awesome and surreal seeing Luffy clash with someone as dangerous as him"
"Strong writing, complex characters, and somewhat surreal musical sequences."
"Okay, it's surreal but so wholesome."
"This isn't even civilization time. This is just some rock surrounded by weird swirling colors."
"The attack when it came was both terrifying and surreal, the wendigo's howls shattered the night, a sound that seemed to freeze the very blood in our veins."
"This is going to sound very loopy by the way but my car radio went silent and everything shifted."
"It's visually spectacular, it's absolutely surreal."
"That was like, the peak. I really realized, like, wow, like, I'm living in a dream."
"It's like a live-action cartoon, but it doesn't fully follow cartoon logic."
"This country is beautiful I walk around I feel like I'm in a movie I feel like it's not real."
"She held her head up and I swear she didn't have eyes or even a nose, just a mouth and a smile so wide it made me nearly soil myself."
"I feel like I'm floating through wonderland right now like I'm about to drive a car through the clouds or in this case a boat"
"The craziest thing is that it looks like you're looking at a painting. It doesn't even look real at all."
"I will die happy I don't care if I go to the depths of hell after that if I saw a giant [ __ ] dolphin you consider me the happiest man alive and dead"
"Of all the surreal, insane aspects of that trip, that took the cake."
"I blacked out for a bit... I woke up and I was floating in the air."
"All of a sudden there's this thing made out of meat and tentacles that's vaguely humanoid."
"Gumball is like a crazy dream come true."
"I'm just trying to eat breakfast y'all on the wrong day out think y'all be time traveling and skipping dimensions and stuff."
"It was such a surreal experience."
"It's just weird that even thinking I was there I'm having our actual baby."
"I can't believe it, guys. Look at the bow on the front door. Is this even real? Like, I feel like I'm actually in a dream and someone's going to wake me up."
"It was probably the biggest fever dream that we have ever experienced."