In literature, the color "dreamy blue" is often employed to evoke a sense of ethereal calm and otherworldly beauty in natural landscapes. For instance, authors describe the sea imbued with an abnormal, almost surreal blueness that sets an uncanny tone for the scene [1], while a hazy dome of dreamy blue skies radiates a delicate warmth in the midst of an Indian summer [2]. This evocative hue is also used to suggest an ambient glow that lingers over rolling lands, as seen with the lingering blue light around the Hudson head-waters [3], as well as in the depiction of rolling hills painted in this tranquil shade [4]. Moreover, comparisons to an unclouded sky—as in the reference to a "soft dreamy blue"—further emphasize its purity and clarity [5], and the deep, dreamy blue of the heavens creates a striking contrast with earthy elements, such as copper-beech trees or sunlit woods [6, 7]. The phrase even appears to capture the very atmosphere of a scene, bathing a day in a dreamy blue heat haze [8] or lending its hue to delicate flora like iris lilies, which heightens the interplay between nature and color [9].
- A clear sky hung above him, while below at his feet lay the sea, with a dreamy blueness that was quite abnormal.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler
- Overhead a hazy dome of dreamy blue, with the sun smiling down through the gauzy curtains of the Indian summer.
— from Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure
by Various Authors, from "Outing" by Charles King
- Neither sunset nor moonrise quite banished the dreamy blue light on these rolling lands around the head-waters of the Hudson.
— from The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
- Across the broad, shining river lay the dreamy blue hills he had so often watched while working at his brushes.
— from McAllister and His Double by Arthur Cheney Train
- It is blue like the unclouded sky—a soft dreamy blue.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
- Looking back across the meadow, Elsie saw a row of copper-beeches standing in an even line against the deep, dreamy blue of the sky.
— from A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney
- The sun had gone, and above the dreamy blue of the far-lying woods, the early evening had hung the sky with mellow, summery, twilight loveliness.
— from Whip and Spur by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
- All is soft and lowland, and was bathed that day in a dreamy blue heat haze.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 2 (of 2)
Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
- The dreamy blue of the iris lilies rising underneath the olives and along the edges of the fields.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida
Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida