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Magical Ideation Scale Questions

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Please do not spend too much time on the following items. There are no right or wrong answers and therefore your first response is important. Click “True” for true and “False” for false. Be sure to answer every question.

1. Some people can make me aware of them just by thinking about me.

2. I have had the momentary feeling that I might not be human.

3. I have sometimes been fearful of stepping on sidewalk cracks.

4. I think I could learn to read other’s minds if I wanted to.

5. Horoscopes are right to often for it to be coincidence. 

6. Things sometimes seem to be in different places when I get home, even though no one has been there.

7. Numbers like 13 and 7 have no special powers. 

8. I have occasionally had the silly feeling that a TV or radio broadcaster knew I was listening to him.

9. I have worried that people on other planets may be influencing what happens on earth.

10. The government refuses to tell us the truth about flying saucers.

11. I have felt that there were messages for me in the way things were arranged, like in a store window.

12. I have never doubted that my dreams are the products of my own mind.

13. Good luck charms don’t work.

14. I have noticed sounds on my records that are not there at other times.

15. The hand motions that strangers make seem to influence me at times.

16. I almost never dream about things before they happen.

17. I have had the momentary feeling that someone’s place has been taken by a look-alike.

18. It is not possible to harm others merely by thinking bad thoughts about them.

19. I have sometimes sensed and evil presence around me, although I could not see it.

20. I sometimes have a feeling of gaining or losing energy when certain people look at me or touch me.

21. I have sometimes had the passing thought that strangers are in love with me.

22. I have never had the feeling that certain thoughts of mine really belonged to someone else.

23. When introduced to strangers, I rarely wonder whether I have known them before.

24. If  reincarnation were true, it would explain some unusual experiences I have had.

25. People often behave so strangely that one wonders if they are part of an experiment.

26. At certain times I perform certain little rituals to ward off negative influences.

27. I have felt that I might cause something to happen just by thinking too much about it.

28. I have wondered whether the spirits of the dead can influence the living.

29. At times I have felt that a professor’s lecture was meant especially for me.

30. I have sometimes felt that strangers were reading my mind.