Table 3.

Table 3 Prototypical descriptions of experiences provided by the non-clinical sample

RHS items	Categories	Descriptions
1, 4, 5, 8, 9	Dreams and dream-like experiences	In my daydreaming I could see my father’s face
3, 4, 8, 9	Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations	I’m half asleep, not quite asleep nor fully awake, and I hear people calling me by name
3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12	Pseudo-hallucinations	When I’m at home studying, I hear my mother’s voice calling me. She lives with me and calls me often, and this might make me think that I hear her calling me when she really is not
4, 5, 6	Vivid imaginations	When I really like a song, I can listen to it without needing to hear it in reality
1	Magical thinking	Sometimes I imagine situations that I want to happen to me and they happen
2	Thoughts interference	When I try to study my course material, the constant fights with my partner come into my head
2	Distraction	I have problems at home and I’m having a hard time concentrating on my studies
10, 12	Attentive/reflexive processes	After observing the faces of people for a long time, I see them differently. What I mean is that they are not the way I thought they were before
13	Mood fluctuations	There are days that I’m more energetic, and I look prettier because I don’t see the wrinkles around my eyes and other days when I say “Today I would not even walk out the front door”
11	Affective illusions	When I’m in bed and alone at home, I see shadows on the walls and then I realize that it’s the light from the street coming through the window
8, 12	Residual category	When I am very nervous, sometimes people and what they are doing and everything stop making sense and it seems like they are “a joke” [Derealization]
		When I have a slight fever, I hear voices. As a child this happened to me quite often [Organic hallucination]
RHS - Revised Hallucination Scale