Lilliputian hallucination
a visual hallucination of objects, animals, or people greatly reduced in size, which may result from a number of conditions, such as delirium tremens, typhoid, or brain tumors in the temporal lobe. The name is derived from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), in which Gulliver journeys to the imaginary land of Lilliput, populated by tiny people. Also called diminutive visual hallucination; microptic hallucination. See also micropsia.