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Castle in the sky (or as a proper name, Castle in the Sky) can have several meanings:
  • As a metaphor for a dream or goal, most usually an unobtainable one
  • A phrase or colloquialism which is a reference to the full metaphor "[He/She] has built castles in the sky but lives in squalor on the ground." This is usually intended to be a criticism of any person who has a rich imagination but doesn't benefit from it in any measurable or practical way. As an example: A "starving artist". It is to say that a person's reality is quite different from their imagined life.
  • A common name for accommodations located in mountains and other high places
In the arts:
  • "Castles in the Sky", a song in the 1956 sponsored-film musical Once Upon a Honeymoon
  • Castle in the Sky (aka Laputa: Castle in the Sky), a 1986 anime film featuring a floating city
  • "Castles in the Sky", a 2001 song by Ian Van DahlFurther Information

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