There's a moster under my bed

chimera \ky-MIR-uh\, noun:

1. 1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.


2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.


3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.


4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
   
   

   
   I love this word.
   

   
   
   As an avid dreamer, my sleep state can sometimes be filled with chimeras that haunt me as I wake.