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dreammatinee

/ˈdriːmˌmætɪneɪ/nounVerified New

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Also in: Traummatinee (Deutsch) · sueñomatiné (Español) · rêvematinée (Français)

A dream that screens during a nap — the daytime showing of the night's usual programming.

The dreammatinee is shorter, stranger, and more experimental than the evening feature: a twenty-minute avant-garde piece about a corridor. Regulars know the matinee has different rules — the plot is thinner, the ushers are asleep, and you leave through the same door you entered, into a Tuesday afternoon.

Etym. — dream + matinee — the cinema metaphor does real work: a matinee is precisely a daytime performance, which is what a nap-dream is.

Rel. — naproulette · dreamlag

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Coined by an anonymous contributor · AI-assisted · first submitted 2026-11-14 · published 2026-11-14

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