Table 3.

Examples of each of the Content categories.

Content category	Example
Relationships (n = 31)	There is not really a location. It is about my father whom I haven’t seen for about 14 years due to circumstances. I visualize him and me in a living room where we catch up on the last 14 years. The time when it plays is also unclear. The image means quite a lot to me. I would like to speak to him again and stuff, but it doesn’t work the way I want it to. The thoughts I have with this are tricky, because I don’t know what he is like now and how I will respond to that in turn. It evokes (again) feelings of being incomplete
Life-threatening event (n = 15)	A car came by very closely and I already saw myself lying under the car. I was alone. I felt very nervous afterwards
Recreation/exploration (n = 8)	A holiday in America with a friend who was an au pair there for a year. We are cycling in the sun, on our way to the supermarket for groceries. This is sometime during the course of a weekday, on which my friend had to work as usual. This image makes me happy, I think back to this holiday as very successful, a beautiful experience. It was also a unique experience. In relation to the weather in the Netherlands I think back to it and then I feel a little nostalgic. Especially the weather is important in this memory. Also the feeling of being happy, not to have to do things, just holiday and relaxation
Achievement/mastery (n = 4)	I think a lot about a job interview that I have in the near future. It is set in a room at the [name university]. The feelings it evokes I can perhaps best describe as ‘healthy stress’. I think about it a lot because I really want to be admitted, but that also causes mild tensions
Guilt/shame (n = 2)	Last week when I was lying in bed a shameful event came up spontaneously that was not nice at all at that moment. The same shameful feeling arose and I wanted mostly to cringe