# see things

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/see-things
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To imagine that one sees things that are not actually present; to have visual hallucinations.

## Examples

- I thought I saw a ghost, but I was just seeing things.
- The room was so dark that I kept seeing things in the shadows, but it was just my imagination.
- Exhausted after days of travel, he began to wonder if he was seeing things when the empty desert road appeared to shimmer with water.

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