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. 2020 Feb 25;14:61. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00061

TABLE 2.

Transcriptions of example responses from both subjects pertaining to the dreamy state and double consciousness.

Structure Voltage Transcribed responses
Subject 1
Ventral BLA 2 V “Now I’m at my elementary school…I’m at my elementary school… I’m like right outside the gate…[inaudible] ***…are they probing my brain? What a trip…it’s like I can’t get rid of this smile…and I’m right at the front gate where I went in elementary…why is it that I’m going back to where I grew up? What a trip…and that aqueduct I think I know where it’s at in ***…I just know where it’s at” (I) “Can you turn off the floating visualizations?” (S) “It just happens…yeah…like it’s changing a channel…it went from like the park to the aqueduct to the school…I float into it”
Ventral BLA 3 V (S) “I’m in like a dark place now with a white wall… this one white wall like this and another one right here and I’m floating like right here…like two white walls perpendicular to each other” “This is not someplace you’ve been?” “Nuh uh…exactly I’ve never been here…like there’s grass…kind like I’m trapped a little bit…I feel like a rush in my upper body” “I’m over a driveway now…I’m over the driveway where I use to live in ***…oh my god…I’m over the driveway and there’s a big old oak tree a big ass oak tree the one that was in front of the house…I’m like to the side of it, the oak tree is right here…the house is behind it and the driveway is right here and I’m kinda of like floating right here…but what a trip I see the tree the oak tree and the driveway.” (I) And you’re smiling? (S) Yeah…I mean I don’t know it’s like I’m going back to a place I haven’t thought of in like shoot 30 years…I’m just thinking to myself why am I going back to *** places where I use to go when I was a little kid…what a trip” “I can do this all day…this is cool man” “If I ask you to can you visualize the room where you are right now, can you visualize me?” “Yeah I can visualize you and the bed, and me” “I’m floating over this place…but I think it was when I was in Germany, but I don’t really recognize it…and I’m just floating across it…what a trip man…is this what it feels like to be high?” “I think I’m in Germany…I think so yeah” “Can you voluntarily turn that off and just like focus” “yeah”
Dorsal BLA 1 V (S) “Lady that is amazing…there’s this lady showing me all her ceramic artwork…she’s got all kinds of animals and she’s got this one it’s like a clownfish beautiful…I guess she’s like a sculpture…she does really good work…oh my god…all the animals that she made all the flowers they’re all glossy baby you got talent boy…I feel good…this lady she just showed me some nice artwork some nice things that she made…god she made 2 kettles one of the world and I don’t know what the other one is but one of the kettles is like the planet earth and she made it into a kettle…is that amazing or what…god…were like in a kind of [inaudible] place that’s been cleared out so the little houses and the lady the owner she does the ceramic artwork…beautiful…I see a penguin…oh man”
Dorsal BLA 3 V (S) “I’m in the patio with a dog…it’s a cement patio…I think I’m in Costa Rica…yeah because the cement patio but the rest it’s all like forest…it’s like San Isidro…”
Subject 2
Dorsal BLA 3 V (S) “I am fine…oh yeah…I’m happy…almost seems like I had déjà vu…oh when you told you’d explain my eye…I just remember I had a dream about this…some of how do you say it…the tastes and the smells you know stuff like that” (I) “Déjà vu is new for you or it happens before too?” (S) “it’s only happened like twice before ever in my life?”
CeA 5 V (S) “It’s like I want to…jolt…I just can’t it’s just a subconscious feeling …just run…just a subconscious feeling…”

(I) indicates interviewer’s queries and (S) represents subject responses. *** represents removal of potential patient identifiers.