Table 1.

Two‐factor structure of the psychedelic experience

Subjective ratings	PC1 (“ego‐loss”)	PC2 (“affective valence”)
I lost all sense of ego	0.842	0.014
My imagination was extremely vivid	0.841	−0.282
The experience had a spiritual or mystical quality	0.811	0.161
I experienced a loss of separation from my environment	0.756	−0.129
I saw geometric patterns	0.725	0.240
It felt like I was floating	0.725	−0.250
I felt like I was merging with my surroundings	0.717	0.526
The experience had a supernatural quality	0.693	0.649
I felt afraid	0.675	−0.271
I feared loosing control of my mind	0.665	0.074
My thoughts wandered freely	0.661	0.470
I saw events from my past	0.637	0.049
The experience had dreamlike quality	0.589	−0.251
Things looked strange	0.533	−0.503
I felt a profound inner peace	0.463	0.476
Sounds influenced things I saw	0.406	0.244
I felt unusual bodily sensations	0.402	−0.728
My sense of time was distorted	0.276	−0.183
My thinking was muddled	0.247	−0.705
My sense of size and space was distorted	0.189	−0.193
I felt suspicious and paranoid	0.186	−0.346
I felt completely normal	0.055	0.338
Intensity of the experience	0.74	−0.189
% Of variance explained (cumulative)	36.37%	50.33%

Values are Pearson correlation coefficients (r) representing associations between first two principal components and corresponding subjective ratings.

36.37% 13.97% of the variance (50.33% cumulative)