Table 2.

Examples of reported flashforward imagery and associated memories.

FF imagery
Example 1	‘… I imagine how others will judge me (negatively). I see how, afterwards (after the speech situation), the others are talking about how it was … I think I could have done better or could have said something else… the catastrophic scenario is that they will form a negative image about me after the situation…’
Example 2	‘… I prepare to start my presentation, and at that moment everyone starts looking at me and is waiting for me to say something… I am tense… in the catastrophic scenario, right at the first word I start to stutter so severely that it takes me a long time to start again, and people look away or do not respond… in the worst case scenario I become really self-conscious, which only increases the pressure, and I may not be able to pick it up again… I am afraid that the others may find me pathetic or incompetent… that they judge me (negatively)’
Associated memory
Example 1	‘… I am 10 years old… in the train in Italy… I am afraid that either me or the rest of my family will get off the train and that I will be left alone at the station or inside the train… nothing actually happens… but I can remember that I was really scared’
Example 2	‘… I was in the second grade, 13 years old, in a new class… 30 other people, all faced to the front of the classroom… they asked us to introduce ourselves, and when it was my turn, I stuttered when I said my name… people laughed… one boy repeated my name in the same stuttering manner… I feel emotional…’

FF = Flashforward.