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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Peacocks, jellyfish, giant frogs and a mermaid inhabit a dreamtime of otherworldly balance in the gouaches and watercolors, all from the 1950s and ’60s, of this presentation.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
It’s a meditation on the psychic effects of motherland dreamtime: “Darker the berry, sweeter the fruit/ Deeper the wounded, deeper the roots/ Nubian doused in brown, I’m loungin’ in it.
From Slate • Jul. 19, 2019
Nango's tale was more than an aboriginal "dreamtime" story.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 19, 2017
“Often my dreamtime recipes come out somewhat better than my waking recipes. My husband, John, thinks I should write a cookbook called ‘Dream On: Adventures in Sleepcooking.’
From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2017
Youth be bearer Soon of hardihood; Life be fairer, Loyaller to good; Till the far lamps vanish into light, Rest in the dreamtime.
From The Hill A Romance of Friendship by Vachell, Horace Annesley
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