Childhood has long been championed as a time for make-believe, but recent research has found that another form of unreality – hallucinations – is more common in children than we previously imagined.
After "the great dazzling explosion of unreality" ends, the population is left to face "the unburied corpses swarming with flies and beginning to rot under their very noses, the bruised backs of those whom they had whipped".
Back to bombs and rockets One man's joy in Iraq ReprintsViewed from Iraq, all this debate has an air of unreality.
Bosnia has shown the unreality of expecting local politicians to help manage such reforms, at least at first.
This is the European Union, so it would have been rash to count on the plan's being implemented just because governments had promised it would be and for most of the six years an air of unreality surrounded the venture.
Just as America's economy seems to be recovering, with the promise of GDP growing by 2.7% in 2014, it could face another shutdown of the kind that has just sent consumer confidence to a nine-month low and knocked back growth in the fourth quarter by an estimated 0.6 percentage points.The way in which the Americans have surpassed the Europeans is the unreality of their discussion.
Gazing at the vibrating and bizarre faces within the drawing, Ms Swinbourne remarks: "Even if I have failed at everything else in this show, at least I brought these here".Ensor's artistic leap into unreality is next.
Despite the crisis, a sense of unreality prevails.
And there is more than a whiff of unreality to NATO's chief development proposal: to splurge over $200m on three vast diesel generators.
But some nonetheless detect an air of unreality.
Its clean wide streets, lined with palm trees decked in twinkling coloured lights, lends an air of unreality at the heart of the Iraqi government.Moreover, though it is the world's eighth-biggest oil producer, Iraq is running out of money.
