PHANTASY LIFE Synonyms

• (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

• imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

• a cherished desire

• a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

• a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality

• someone or something wonderful

• have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

• experience while sleeping

• imagination unrestricted by reality

• fiction with a large amount of imagination in it

• something many people believe that is false

• indulge in fantasies

• illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder

• a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

• an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode

• an erroneous mental representation

• something many people believe that is false

• the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

• the ability to form mental images of things or events

• the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

• an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects

• something illusory and unattainable

• absentminded dreaming while awake

• an abstracted state of absorption

• an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world