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So I found this song "夕刻、夢ト見紛ウ" by AtF and it was awesome, I know that "夢"
means dream, and the "ト" could be indicating the particle 'and" so, what does
the whole sentence mean?
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What does this sentence mean? 夕刻、夢ト見紛ウ
I'm not sure if I can tell what it means as a sentence, not only because the
structure is vague, but it is possibly not a complete sentence.

と is a case particle rather than conjunction "and" here, composing a part of
AをBと見紛う "mis-see A for B". However, this word is hardly used in its literal
sense. It instead often make a poetic way to say "as if", typically in the
construction ～と見紛うばかりの～.

> 天国と見紛うばかりの絶景 _a marvelous view as if one were at the pearly gates_  
>  山と見紛うほどの巨体 _the hull as gigantic as a mountain_

What 夕刻 "evening" does in this phrase is undecidable. It may be the object of
見紛う or just the time (in this case the object is unspecified) or the subject,
perhaps. The ambiguity could be intentional. You might get the meaning after
reading the lyrics, or not.
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Having watched the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9z-Z-VpHo), the
lyrics states (around 1:23):

> それは夢と見紛うほどの悪戯でした
>
> やがて夜が来る前に伝えなくちゃ

> It was a cruel joke, making it seem like a dream
>
> I must tell him/her before the night comes

I think that the title refers to the evening hour when all this is happening
by being in a dream-like state, but in reality it's only a cruel joke played
by the night which inevitably follows.
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夢と見紛う means "to mistake it for a dream". AをBと見紛う ("to (visually) misperceive A
as B") is the full form, but the Aを part is omitted in this title.

Grammatically, this と means not "and" but "as". This type of と is used with
many verbs related to (mis)perceiving or considering.

  * AをB **と** 見なす to regard A as B
  * AをB **と** 仮定する to assume A is B

In dictionaries, this type of と is explained along the lines of "marks the
result or content of an action". You can see an (incomplete) list of similar
verbs [here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/55169/5010). Please see
[this related question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/55990/5010), too.
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