HALLUCINATIONS IN NORMAL POPULATION - IMA GERY AND PERSONALITY INFLUENCES

The present study was designed to gather data to the continuum hypothe sis of hallucinations. According to this hypothesis, hallucinations ca n be considered to be one end of a continuum of normal conscious exper ience that include vivid imagery, daydreams and thoughts. Subjects wer e 222 college students who anonymously completed the Barret and Etheri dge Hallucination Questionaire, the Betts QMI Vividness of Imagery Sca le, and Mirron's Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II). The results suggest that hallucinators have more vivid imagery and higher scores o n most MilIon's Inventory scales compared to non-halIucinators. Nevert heless, it was not found a normal distribution of the hallucinatory ex periences, which casts doubt on their dimensional nature.