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be hearing/imagining/seeing things

informal

Definition

to think you are experiencing something that is not really happening: I'm sure I saw my glasses on this table, but they're not here now. I must have been seeing things.Dreaming
(Definition of be hearing/imagining/seeing things from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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