dreamtime

dreamtime [dreem-tahym] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.

Origin of dreamtime First recorded in 1905–10; dream + time Also called alcheringa, the dreaming. Examples from the Web for dreamtime Contemporary Examples of dreamtime

Living in a sort of dreamtime characterizes experience now, as the Moon is void-of-course a few times this week.

Your Horoscopes

Starsky + Cox

May 21, 2011

Historical Examples of dreamtime

The evidence of the Arunta legends as to the customs of the Alcheringa, or ‘dreamtime,’ is ‘such stuff as dreams are made of.’

Social Origins and Primal Law

Andrew Lang

British Dictionary definitions for dreamtime Dreamtime noun

1. Also called: alchera (ˈæltʃərə), alcheringa (in the mythology of Australian Aboriginal peoples) a mythical Golden Age of the past
2. Australian informal any remote period, out of touch with the actualities of the present