Real life as we know it is just an irrelevant backdrop to surreal life on a mobile.

Painlevé, like Guillaume Apollinaire in 1909, claimed that "the cinema is a creator of a surreal life".

In typical Wilson fashion, objects on the stage assume a surreal life of their own.

Captain Kirk Spelman, head of the cargo department, made pinhole cameras with cardboard scraps, creating surreal black-and-white images of our surreal life.

Men make their way through their surreal and chilling lives by selling their own blood, by picking pockets, by drinking themselves into a stupor.

Now I looked with vodka-infused affection at this man with whom I'd been spending a near-hallucinogenic twenty-four hours within my already surreal life.

He added, "I don't notice advertising anymore, unless it is advertising that somehow makes my life a little more surreal, or stupid, or silly, or magical."

Talking to Pete had a way of bringing a dash of amusing, everyday reality into my increasingly surreal life.

Paul Biddle's surreal still life photography.

Because of Ms. Spelling's "90210" pedigree and her own surreal life, "So Notorious" fits both niches.