Tellegen Absorption Scale Questions
To: Bobbie Atristain Tommy Amos Freddie Sineath Brian Parrish Ladona Gorham Patricia Drummond
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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. Sometimes I feel and experience things as I did when I was a child. True False
2. I can be greatly moved by eloquent or poetic language. True False
3. While watching a movie, a TV show, or play, I may become so involved that I may forget about myself and my surroundings and experience the story as if it were real and as if I were taking part in it. True False
4. If I stare at a picture and then look away from it, I can sometimes “see” an image of the picture almost as if I were still looking at it. True False
5. Sometimes I feel as if my mind could envelop the whole world. True False
6. I like to watch cloud shapes change in the sky. True False
7. If I wish I can imagine (or daydream) some things so vividly that they hold my attention as a good movie or story does. True False
8. I think I really know what some people mean when they talk about mystical experiences. True False
9. I sometimes “step outside’ my usual self and experience an entirely different state of being. True False
10. Textures—such as wool, sand, wood—sometimes remind me of colors of music. True False
11. Sometimes I experience things as if they were doubly real. True False
12. When I listen to music I can get so caught up in it that I don’t notice anything else. True False
13. If I wish I can imagine that my body is so heavy that I could not move it if I wanted to. True False
14. I can often somehow sense the presence of another person before I actually see or hear her/him. True False
15. The crackle and flames of a wood fire stimulate my imagination. True False
16. It is sometimes possible for me to be completely immersed in nature or in art and to feel as if my whole state of consciousness has somehow been temporarily altered. True False
17. Different colors have distinctive and special meaning for me. True False
18. I am able to wonder off into my thoughts while doing a routine task and actually forget that I am doing the task, and then find a few minutes later that I have completed it. True False
19. I can sometimes recollect certain past experiences in my life with such clarity and vividness that it is like living then again or almost so. True False
20. Things that might seem meaningless to others often make sense to me. True False
21. While acting in a play I think I could really feel the emotions of the character and “become” him/her for the time being, forgetting both myself and the audience. True False
22. My thoughts often don’t occur as words but as visual images. True False
23. I often take delight in small things (like the five-pointed star shape that appears when you cut an apple pie across the core or the colors in soap bubbles). True False
24. When listening to organ music or other powerful music I sometimes feel as if I am being lifted into the air. True False
25. Sometimes I can change noise into music by the way I listen to it. True False
26. Some of my most vivid memories are called up by scents and smells. True False
27. Some music reminds me of pictures or changing color patterns. True False
28. I often know what someone is going to say before he or she says it. True False
29. I often have “physical memories”; for example, after I have been swimming I may still feel as if I am in the water. True False
30. The sound of a voice can be so fascinating to me that I can just go on listening to it. True False
31. At times I somehow feel the presence of someone who is not physically there. True False
32. Sometimes thoughts and images come to me without the slightest effort on my part. True False
33. I find that different odors have different colors. True False
34. I can be deeply moved by a sunset. True False
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