梦幻流行（Dream Pop）是流行摇滚和另类摇滚的一种亚流派。虽然对梦幻流行的影响可以追溯到20世纪40年代，现代梦幻流行起源于20世纪80年代中期的英国，但是这一词大多专指于美国。The Passions、Dif Juz、Lowlife和A.R. Kane等乐队最先开始尝试融合后朋克、苦中带甜的流行乐旋律和仙音元素（ethereal wave，暗潮音乐的亚流派），形成梦幻般的“音景”。

梦幻流行流派更多地注重音乐的质地和情感，而不是传统摇滚乐常有的推进性的反复乐节。主唱的声音常为气音甚至近乎耳语，歌词往往是关注内心的。专辑封面往往糅合了模糊的、柔和的图像风格和极简的设计风格。4AD唱片公司是与梦幻流行相关的最著名的公司，其他厂牌如Creation、Projekt、Fontana、Bedazzled、Vernon Yard和Slumberland在该流派上也相当有影响力。

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that developed in the 1980s. The style is typified by a preoccupation with atmosphere and texture as much as melody, often resulting in an ethereal or dream-like sound. The term was coined in the late 1980s by Alex Ayuli to describe the music of his band A.R. Kane and later adopted by music critic Simon Reynolds to describe the nascent shoegazing scene in the UK. In the 1990s, dream pop and shoegazing were regionally dependent and interchangeable terms.