phantasma

And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2018

Between the acting of a dreadful thing       And the first motion, all the interim is       Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Alfred Rayney Waller

The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

Serpents would too often glide across the table around which the gay company, himself a member, were assembled; or some other sudden and more appalling change scatter into fragments the bright phantasma of his dreams.

From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Next morning at breakfast, the inquisitor apologized for the disturbance, and said the boy's alarm proceeded from a phantasma animi,—phantom of the imagination.

From Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal by Sarah J. Richardson

If you know anything of ecclesiastical Latin, the words noctium phantasmata may perhaps occur to you, and the whole field of demonology in connection with the Fraternity will open before you.

From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite

The phantasmata vary, but the invisible what?—or who?—remains the same.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

Somnambulism and other nocturnal deceptions frequently lend their aid to the formation of such phantasmata as are formed in this middle state, betwixt sleeping and waking.

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott

He decided at last to extinguish it, and repeated the stanza he had already heard sung that evening in chapel: Procul recedant somnia Et noctium phantasmata, Hostemque nostrum comprime, Ne polluantur corpora.

From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans