Fantasies

Stumbling across new words can be fun, and for some reason chimerical jumped out at me today. Tell me, is it a bad thing if something is imaginary? Can chimerical dreams turn into reality? I think they can; after all, some of my winter dreams of riding seem to magically turn themselves into traveling vacations...

From Dictionary.com's Word of the Day Archive:

chimerical \ky-MER-ih-kuhl; -MIR-; kih-\, adjective: Merely imaginary; produced by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; fantastic; improbable or unrealistic. Given to or indulging in unrealistic fantasies or fantastic schemes.

And from the glossary of Oxford University Press's Classical Mythology:

Today a chimera is a fantastic delusion, an illusory creation of the mind, or a hybrid organism, usually a plant. Chimerical and chimeric designate something as unreal, imaginary, or fantastic. These adjectives can also signify that one is given to fantasy.