The word "visions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that someone sees in their mind's eye, a dream-like imagination, or ideas and intentions for the future. For example: "The entrepreneur had ambitious visions of starting a successful business."
Others basked in a wave of optimism, this being the best scheme to come out of a tawdry saga of ill-conceived visions that has dragged on for the past quarter of a century.
Which brings us to 2014, where tech-clusters and high-speed trains are on the menu, attracting all the cachet associated with dynamic entrepreneurial economies on the up, they are the latest in a long line of optimistic modernising visions for the north.
In the outrage of their opponents, meanwhile, there are implied visions of Nazi bonfires and claims of a heart-stopping offence to age-old ideas about knowledge, wisdom and information.
A large apparatus, however, always faces the same battle – over national visions, sovereignty, money, positions.
Some of the great comics creators – Dan Clowes (Ghost World), Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat) and Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigann: The Smartest Kid On Earth) – write and draw their comics, allowing for a meticulously faithful rendering of their visions.
Michael Keaton is a washed-up movie star trying to reinvent himself as a serious actor on Broadway, but plagued with hallucinatory visions of "Birdman" – the preposterous superhero he once played.
In the X-Factor economies of Britain and America, you may no longer be able to count on a decent job, affordable home or moderate pension, but still you are offered visions of outlandish success – whether in singing (for the glamorous) or business (for the rest of us).
By co-opting or creating new visions of the future, it seems possible to influence the development of new products and services - from consumer tech to urban infrastructure.
These have become an accepted local aspiration, and risk drowning out alternative visions for the future of these cities.
The following day – as visions of financial security danced through our heads – I'd just bitten into a slice of Bleecker Street Pizza when an unfamiliar 212 number rang through my phone.
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