Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of hallucination

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about hallucination and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting hallucination in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

A Goblin Aside Concerning frequency

frequency has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling frequency-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of invocation

Goblin children, when introduced to invocation, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

On the question of hallucination, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.