characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J C Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
If you describe something as surreal, you mean that the elements in it are combined in a strange way that you would not normally expect, like in a dream. `Performance' is undoubtedly one of the most surreal movies ever made. a situation or experience that is surreal is very strange and difficult to understand, like something from a dream (surrealism)