A dream like element of this painting is the three clocks. The clocks are melting, dripping, and in a liquid form, while we know clocks to be hard brittle, and a solid. Another dream like element of the painting is that a tree is growing out of the table, because trees only grow out of dirt. As a viewer, I was forced to look at time form a different perspective. Time in this painting is unpredictable, flowing on the page, which highly contrasts from our modern society's view of time as a constant. I was also confused as to how a tree could possibly grow out of a table, and I had to question natural laws. Overall, all of the dream like aspects of the piece forced me to question things I though of as “natural”. The main image that stands out
