How did Salvador Dali combine dreams and reality in the persistence of memory?

Answer: Dali contrasts a familiar landscape with bizarre objects, and in this way combines dreams and reality.

Explanation:

Dali's Persistence of Memory (1931) is one of the most distinguished works of Surrealism.

In this piece of art, Dali puts bizarre objects associated with dreaming in a realistic landscape.

The rocky landscape was inspired by the artist's native Catalonia. Across the composition, melting clocks are thrown. The clocks are sliding down a mysterious object, or melting down the tree branch. The closed pocket watch is the only watch that does not change its form. There is also an anthropomorphic mass on the ground, a face-like object that many critics have interpreted as a self-portrait of the artist.

It is easy to see that Dali combines a landscape familiar to human eye and dream-like objects. In this way, he portrays the close relation between dreams and reality.