Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality. Its symptoms can be a long-term interest in the weather, or a sustained soaring feeling, or a bout of the stares that you sometimes can not even know about except in retrospect, when the time may seem fogged.
Dreaminess is described as a condition where one's awareness is temporarily halted, often as a reaction to an overload of irrelevant and complex information. This state can manifest in various ways, such as a persistent fascination with the weather, a feeling of elation, or moments of deep contemplation that may go unnoticed until later reflection reveals their presence.
In Richard Ford's "The Sportswriter," this notion of dreaminess captures the experience of...
