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Phantasos

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phantasos (Ancient Greek: , 'apparition' 'fantasy' from Ancient Greek: , phantasíā, 'appearance' 'imagination') is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep, the Roman counterpart of Hypnos). He appeared in dreams in the form of inanimate objects, putting on "deceptive shapes of earth, rocks, water, trees, all lifeless things".