Dreamlike is a subset of Surreal.
Dreamlike surrealism is any surrealism that is a common pattern in dreams.
Half of its value is it is surrealism which some readers will have personal first-hand experience with.
<aside> 💡 If an inspiration is dreamlike then it is also surreal, so I am treating them as mutually exclusive and restricting each inspiration to only be associated with one feature or the other.
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The other half of its value is: one of the major inspirations for Marloth are my own dreams.
Not all of my dreams inspire Marloth. There are particular kinds of dreams I have every now and then that drive me to write.
Below are a list of qualities that make a narrative dreamlike.
A narrative does not need every one of these qualities to be dreamlike, only one or more of them.
When a narrative has surreal transitions between scenes and events.
When the dreamers internal thoughts and emotions manifest in the surrounding environment and events.