Examples
Persons with ideas of reference may experience:
- Believing that 'somehow everyone on a passing city bus is talking about them, yet they may be able to acknowledge this is unlikely'.
- A feeling that people on television or radio are talking about or talking directly to them
- Believing that headlines or stories in newspapers are written especially for them
- Believing that events (even world events) have been deliberately contrived for them, or have special personal significance for them
- Believing that the lyrics of a song are specifically about them
- Seeing objects or events as being set up deliberately to convey a special or particular meaning to themselves
- Thinking 'that the slightest careless movement on the part of another person had great personal meaning...increased significance'.
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