Dreamlike/nightmarish art/entertainment

List any artist/entertainer or discrete work of art/entertainment that genuinely evokes the quality of dreams, not just stuff that's, like, totally freaky, maaaan, or way scary, duuuuude.

Such as:

David Lynch (particularly Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire)
Jim Woodring
Aphex Twin's SAW II
Rick Veitch's Rare Bit Fiends (unsurprisingly)

(I'm about 90% sure that someone is going to post a link to a similar thread that I couldn't find with the search function.)

I think Woodring (often) uses dream diaries as a writing aid, same as Vietch.

Quay Brothers!

After Hours reminded me of having a bad dream.

And hey - the sculpture/collage of Jim Hodges does something like this for me, too.

A lot of Julie Doucet's comic stories are illustrations of her dreams, or at least that's what she claims.

some Roman Polanski (notably The Tenant and Repulsion)

Stockhausen's Studie

lotsa cronenberg stuff, dead ringers, crash, naked lunch, videodrome

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After Hours is a very good example, I think it was definitely meant to feel like a dream, especially considering that the whole story pretty much takes place during the hours most people sleep.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Dead Ringers and Crash didn't feel that dreamlike to me, there's too much clarity in them. I don't think a piece of art being surreal automatically makes it dreamlike.

epstein's fall of the house of usher

What I meant to say, especially in Dead Ringers Cronenberg's style is too clinical and analytical to make it feel like a dream.

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eXistenZ

Lindstrom and Prinzzzzz Thomas are definitely making me feel pretty dreamlike

depends how clinical and analytical yr dreams are I guess

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Roberto Bolaño's narratives often feel very much like dreams about to go very very bad (if not turned nightmarish already). Borges, Saramago and Kafka all evoke a distinct sense of fantastic familiarity -- like dreams I definitely once had and am being made to remember. Highway 61 era Dylan (marathon free association dreams with guest appearances by God and Shakespeare), Bjork (pastorally blissful and erotic dreams you don't want to wake up from), and then all kinds of movies come to mind, but especially Last House at Marienbad and Spirited Away (the whole movie, but especially the image of the train traveling over a vast shallow sea).

15 Quay Brothers short films for free here...
http://www.indiemoviesonline.com/news/the-quay-brothers-come-to-indiemovies-140410

I think it's "UK only"? And has an irritating ad about gin before every film but it's worth it.

A lot of those have popped up on Sky Arts over the last 12 months, all of them well worth seeing unless you hate po-faced fun