Sentence:  A `` mental image '' subconsciously impressing us from beneath its language <WSD>symbols</WSD> in wakeful thought , or consciously in light sleep , is actually not an image at all but is comprised of realities , viewed not in the concurrent sensory stream , but within the depths of the fourth dimension . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance