Table 2.
Table 2 Prototypical descriptions of experiences provided by the clinical sample
RHS items | Categories | Descriptions |
1 | Dereistic thinking | I believe that my brother was dead when he was really alive |
1, 3, 8, 10, 11 | Centrality experiences | Watching TV and thinking they were talking to me |
3, 7, 8 | Auditory verbal hallucinations | I hear a voice that asks me to do something or tells me something about someone |
3, 4, 5, 9 | Visual hallucinations | I see my mother or brother [as an apparition], and they show me their pain |
6 | Vivid imaginations | I often only have to imagine the song and I hear it in my head with all of its instruments and parts |
2, 12 | Obsessions-compulsions | Sometimes I just attack people when I’m really a good person who hasn’t done anything bad to anyone |
10, 13 | Derealization-depersonalization | When looking at people, they sometimes seem strange, like they’re not real, and the things in the house too |
4, 9, 11, 12 | Tangential responses | Listening to the song of Ana Belen, “...watching the time pass, the Gate of Alcalá”, |
I’m from Madrid and it makes me cry because it brings back good memories of my days as a student | ||
2, 3, 5, 7, 13 | Residual category | Having tried to talk to the thought, thinking it was saying something. In that moment I thought I had power and that others were able to hear me [Thought transmission] |
I imagined that another woman was me (that there was another woman inside of her) [Passivity experience] | ||
RHS - Revised Hallucination Scale |