It was almost like being in a dream state.
They have been described as being "an evocation of a dream state".
"I think that under the circumstances, you are confusing a dream state with reality."
There is very little reality testing in the dream state.
Twenty-one years have passed and our people are still in the dream state.
The lovers then lie down in the water, and both fall into a dream state.
For us the movie clung like a lingering dream state.
But the director seems to be in a kind of dazed dream state, and has been that way for about a week, he says.
Those had been the glimmers he saw in his dream state "What happened?"
"And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state."