Difference between Dreamlike and Surreal

DREAMLIKE vs SURREAL: ADJECTIVE

Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
Resembling a dream; vague or fantastic.
Resembling a dream

Melancholy, Melancholic, Hypnotic, Impressionistic, Evocative, Phantasmagoric, Fantastical, Otherworldly, Eerie, Hallucinatory, Surrealistic, Ethereal, Dreamy, Unreal, Surreal

Eerie, Weird, Imaginary, Surrealist, Preposterous, Odd, Absurd, Bizarre, Strange, Unrealistic, Phantasmagorical, Phantasmagoric, Dreamlike, Surrealistic, Unreal

Melancholy, Melancholic, Hypnotic, Impressionistic, Evocative, Phantasmagoric, Fantastical, Otherworldly, Eerie, Hallucinatory, Surrealistic, Ethereal, Dreamy, Unreal, Surreal

Eerie, Weird, Imaginary, Surrealist, Preposterous, Odd, Absurd, Bizarre, Strange, Unrealistic, Phantasmagorical, Phantasmagoric, Dreamlike, Surrealistic, Unreal

From a psychological point of view blue tends to invoke dreamlike states.
She use both photography and drawing, combined digitally, to create dreamlike scenarios.
His artistic style is "hypnorealism", or hypnotic dreamlike realism, deriving from surrealism.
Romero stages dreamlike sequences that straddle the line between fantasy and reality.
FLASH BACK: Black and white grainy dreamlike effect as Sarah falls.
Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
The story, based on Thumbalina, is dreamlike and vague.
It creates a romantic, dreamlike or magical atmosphere.
Every interaction with a person seemed very dreamlike.
The journey after that has a dreamlike quality.

It was a little surreal watching him win.
Seeing her for the first time was surreal.
But there have been a few surreal moments.
Still, seeing himself abused like that was surreal.
All turning points in a stretching, surreal timeline.
Holding the big one is a surreal experience.
It just seemed like such a surreal occurrence.
Dark, surreal, thoughtprovoking and at points satirical journey.
Be inspired by surrealism to write a surreal story and create a surreal landscape with this Tate Kids activity.
Ask Jennifer Lawrence about the most surreal moment of her very surreal past year, and she has an instant answer.