Surreal Dream Photos

Fishbowl heads, flying fish and a box of birds: Photographer turns his surreal dreams into mind-bending and gravity-defying pictures 

Feeding frenzy: Photographer Ronen Goldman was inspired by the notion that he and his fiancee 'feed each other's minds.' She posed with a friend who stood in for Goldman, and then he held a fish bowl over where their heads would have been

Urban climbers: Goldman shot this photo in a parking garage. The image required some editing and a discretely positioned step-stool

Art imitating art: Goldman staged this shoot in Brussels, Belgium, after visiting the Magritte Museum dedicated to the famous surrealist painter who has been a source of inspiration

Ball game: The artist used a portrait lens with a shallow depth of field and composed a mosaic of 22 individual images

Creative process: Every photo starts with a dream or a fragment of a dream Goldman remembers, followed by months he spends analyzing his feelings about it to create a real-world image

Playful: In a scene straight from a Hitchcock movie, Goldman tells a story of a man who is being carried away by birds that sprang from a cardboard box with a menacing warning

Truth behind the image: Although it appears that the girl is floating into a bag on the ground, the image was actually shot with a person lying on the ground and propping her up

Reptilian feelings: The photo represents a fear of relationships, as in, 'Is there room in that bed for me?' But during the shoot, held in Goldman's apartment, there was only one lizard on hand

Citrus rain: The image shows a man picking a harvest of lemons and limes dropping from the sky like rain

Tricks up his sleeve: Goldman and his friend plotted out the spiral of cards, with each man holding four cards at a time, while a third man was at the camera

Bedtime story: A strangely beautiful image depicts a woman with a bright light bulb for a head reading a book to children while illuminating her surroundings