What he saw here is perhaps a dream or a phantasm because ' too good to be true'.
A phantasm has been summoned.
New impressions could, by way of association, call back older experiences and integrate them into nocturnal phantasms.
The objection to putting a tax on capital value is something entirely new, and is a mere phantasm.
Each point, as it is raised, turns out to be a phantasm.
I look upon that as a lucre phantasm.
This is no phantasm of the imagination.
I do not know how many of us would be capable of introspecting with such lucidity our own parents' utopias, phantasms and disappointments.