പലപ്പോഴും ആഗ്രഹപൂർണമായ ചിന്തയുടെ ഒരു ഘടകത്തോടുകൂടിയ സാങ്കൽപ്പികമോ അയഥാർത്ഥമോ ആയ കാര്യങ്ങളെയോ സാഹചര്യങ്ങളെയോ സങ്കൽപ്പിക്കുകയോ ദൃശ്യവൽക്കരിക്കുകയോ ചെയ്യുക എന്നതാണ് "ഫാന്റസൈസ്" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു നിർവ്വചനം. ദിവാസ്വപ്നങ്ങളിൽ മുഴുകുക അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഭാവനയുടെ പറക്കലിൽ ഏർപ്പെടുക എന്നതും അർത്ഥമാക്കാം.
1. The sure thing was that they would match, maybe even surpass, his joy to finally receive a message, as well as the anticipation to open it, read it all in one go, click on his profile, examine it inside it out, stare at his photos again and again, enlarge them, imagine him, fantasize over him, and read, psychoanalysing and deconstructing the text that complemented it all.
2. Or where the former would fantasize, but in vain, scenes of wild sex with himself at the epicentre, the latter would imagine, but pointlessly, sceneries for his main protagonist.
3. I liked to fantasize about going on exciting missions, deep undercover.
4. There had been no time for me to fantasize about what it could be like between us if things were different, but this is what I would have dreamed up.