1957 U. Krige in (Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) 87 He is in a ‘dwaal’—meaning in a daze, a maze, lost, wandering, he does not know what he's doing, etc.
1984 S. Clouts in Oct. 33 I didn't know how to end the poem. I was walking around in an absolute dwaal.
2014 C. Radmann 8 She had..murmured in her half-awake, half-asleep dwaal.