{"id":12301,"date":"2008-10-07T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/phantasmagoria.html"},"modified":"2008-10-07T08:30:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T08:30:33","slug":"phantasmagoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/07\/phantasmagoria.html","title":{"rendered":"Phantasmagoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"width\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica;\">A\u00a0constantly changing medley of real or imagined images.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is a state between being asleep and being awake, a state in which dreams stop making sense and you feel how your body is tight in the rigor-mortal way that the body defends itself while unconscious. I have heard myself try to scream while in that state. The sound of trying to scream yourself awake from a nightmare is one of coldness. It is like a foghorn but without the authority. That state of the mind waking, the body sleeping, the deathly feel of heaviness and weight that almost holds you back in sleep &#8212; I call that phantasmagorical. Phantasmagoria.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like this definition&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;medley.&#8221; That makes it sound delicate, and while this in-between state could certainly be characterized as delicate depending on the content of the dreams I would think the word &#8220;mix&#8221; or the chemistry term &#8220;mixture&#8221; is more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I think this word is more commonly used to denote psychedelic visions.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0constantly changing medley of real or imagined images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3cp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}