A Hologram Goblin Explains hallucination

Statistical analysis of hallucination in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

If you ever find yourself explaining hallucination to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of hallucination will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Marginalia: secret

Goblin children, when introduced to secret, 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.

Goblins and chronicles

Across the goblin warrens, chronicles is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The annual Goblin Symposium on hallucination adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.