Turtle Dreams is an album by American composer and vocalist Meredith Monk recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM New Series later that year.

[2] A film version, directed by Ping Chong, was broadcast the same year on September 2 on WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts.

"[5] The film version of the piece includes footage of turtles, initially in natural settings and then walking across a world map and through a miniature model of a Western city.

[6] AllMusic awarded the album four stars, with Ted Mills calling it "A daring display of vocal gymnastics and a journey back to childhood when all sounds were wondrous.

"[8] Writing in 2010, Isla Leaver-Yap suggested that Turtle Dreams is "one of Monk's most aggressive and direct works" and comments, "The proximity of players to audience, and the blank stare that they deliver, push Turtle Dreams into a place of intimate hostility, where the emotional charge does not derive from the content but from the format and tone in the work.