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There are competing factions on the question of what a color actually is — or if it’s anything more than a figment of our imagination.

"And it was light and nothing, no tongue, and it was beautiful, it was 'The Princess Bride,'" she said, adding that it feels like such a figment that Taddeo doesn’t even remember how it happened.

An imaginary friend is one thing for a child and quite another for a 38-year-old man who drinks excessively with this figment every night.

When three-year-old Saylor Class began complaining of monsters in her bedroom, her parents thought it was just a figment of a child's overactive imagination.

Lying is so core to everything he is and does that he's a figment of his own imagination.