September 29, 2010 | 2:50pm ET
sur·re·al
[suh-ree-uhl, -reel]
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of surrealism; surrealistic.
2. having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic: surreal complexities of the bureaucracy.
3. Watching Broken Social Scene shake their laffy taffy to dance music while on stage with a giant cartoon cactus in front of a whole crowd of kids while you regret being born before 2003.