seeing things



seeing things

imagining that one sees someone or something that is not there. Lisa says that she saw a ghost, but she was just seeing things. I thought I was seeing things when Bill walked into the room. Someone had told me he was dead.
See also: seeing, thing

seeing things

Experiencing hallucinations or delusions, as in I thought I saw my father, but I must have been seeing things; he died twenty years ago . [First half of 1900s]
See also: seeing, thing

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Nicholson['nikəlsn]
Yared-Biblical Hebrew, Eastern African, Ethiopian
DulfDULFLimburgish
Mahmud-Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
BaerBERLimburgish
TelTELEnglish (British)