phantasma

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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

Does the broken mirror within reflect back the countenance of real things, or shadows and shapes, crossed, mingled, and bewildered,—the phantasma of a sick man's dreams?

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And yet for very sorriness I cannot own the weird phantasma real!

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Thoughts of painful, almost chaotic bewilderment indeed, so chased each other across his mind as to render the scene around him indistinct, the many faces and eager voices like the phantasma of a dream.

From The Vale of Cedars by Aguilar, Grace

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

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob