dreamtime
noun
dream·time
ˈdrēm-ˌtīm 
often capitalized
: the time of creation in the mythology of the Australian aborigines
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That suits director Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name, Vivarium) and screenwriter Thomas Martin’s ambitions to call back to and yet also spoof vintage Australian New Wave films like Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971), dreamtime stories about alienated outsiders.
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
And while Tatch recommends no less than 7 hours of sleep, my actual dreamtime was a lot worse than what those numbers imply.
—Dave Johnson, Forbes, 5 May 2021
An Aboriginal dreamtime story about the platypus (one indigenous name for the animal is Dharragarra) explains its origin as the product of a courtship between a water rat and a duck.
—Helen Sullivan, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
Yet this is a slightly different flavor than pure drift away, dreamtime escapism.
—Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
Then there was the fractured dreamtime of 2010’s Inception and the space-travel distortions of Interstellar, both movies that resolve into heartwarming family reunions.
—Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 25 July 2017
Often my dreamtime recipes come out somewhat better than my waking recipes.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2017
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
And while Tatch recommends no less than 7 hours of sleep, my actual dreamtime was a lot worse than what those numbers imply.
—Dave Johnson, Forbes, 5 May 2021
An Aboriginal dreamtime story about the platypus (one indigenous name for the animal is Dharragarra) explains its origin as the product of a courtship between a water rat and a duck.
—Helen Sullivan, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
Yet this is a slightly different flavor than pure drift away, dreamtime escapism.
—Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
Then there was the fractured dreamtime of 2010’s Inception and the space-travel distortions of Interstellar, both movies that resolve into heartwarming family reunions.
—Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 25 July 2017
Often my dreamtime recipes come out somewhat better than my waking recipes.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2017
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“Dreamtime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreamtime. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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