Exceptional Experience Questionnaire (2009)

This survey contains measures for exceptional, or paranormal, experiences. Topics include positive spiritual experiences (i.e., being illumined by divine light and strength), negative spiritual experiences (i.e., worldview falling apart), psychopathological experiences (i.e., hearing voices), and visionary dream experiences (i.e., dreaming so vividly that dreams reverberate when awake). Other data include basic demographic characteristics.

The questionnaire battery, which consisted of the scales described below, was administered to chronically ill patients that were randomly selected from a patient database within a single medically managed private integrative medicine clinic (Southampton, U.K.). Inclusion criteria were recent treatment (less than 3 years), age (greater than 18 years), and a diagnosis of one of the three main disorders treated in that outpatient clinic: migraine, irritable bowel or chronic fatigue syndrome. The sample consisted of 71 cases with chronic fatigue (65%), 29 (27%) individuals with irritable bowel syndrome, and 9 (8%) patients suffering from migraines.