phantasm

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David Hume, the 18th Century philosopher, described it as “the phantasm of the senses.”

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

A hellish phantasm of a doe-human hybrid that will definitely stalk and kill you in a dream tonight?

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2019

“It’s like a gargoyle with weird green eyes that pulls on my hair or nibbles my ear”—he jerked his head away and smiled reprovingly at the phantasm.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

The equine phantasm holds a sword in one hand while he dangles what looks like a lobster over the face of the sleeping man.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2017

She wasn’t Sarai here, but this absurd tame phantasm of her mother.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor