Iincredibly significant as they occur. But when we awake, if we are lucky enough to remember them, it’s often impossible to make sense of the snippets of information with any sort of logic or sense. Yet we know, from our gut emotional reaction, they were fraught with significance.
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While we are apt to discard dreams for their diaphanous nature, we are quick to recognize things are amiss when waking life occurs as a dream. It’s a strange sensation, one that has earned its own word: surreal, which the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as: “marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream; synonyms: unbelievable fantastic.”
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On Monday, December 19, Merriam-Webster announced, “’Surreal is our 2016 Word of the Year.” In a statement, the company confirmed that that word was chosen, “because it was looked up significantly more frequently by users in 2016 than it was in previous years, and because there were multiple occasions on which this word was the one clearly driving people to the dictionary.”
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