Also called: alchera. alcheringa. (in the mythology of Australian Aboriginal peoples) a mythical Golden Age of the past
informal any remote period, out of touch with the actualities of the present
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Dreamtime Dentistry, the Vista, Calif., facility where Moreno underwent surgery, responded to the medical examiner’s report by saying the death was “not due to dosage but instead due to her rare but undiagnosed/undetected medical condition.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2025
To be honest, flying on a swan through Dreamtime is positively vanilla compared with some of the stuff that goes on here at 5am on Monday morning.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2020
Just look at Joe Hill and Angie Perry-Mansell, the couple behind Dreamtime Bakehouse and Grow Tours, Darwin-based businesses that have a flavor all their own.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2018
His Aboriginal Dreamtime paintings accrue from thousands of delicate concentric lines into undulant, intensely optical expressions that are topographical, abstract and beyond category.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2015
We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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