ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the replicability of Wilson and Barber's findings about fantasy activity among high hypnotizables and explores what traits might characterize high hypnotizables who were not extreme fantasizers. Their fantasizers had a hallucinatory degree of vividness to their imagery and they experienced dramatic physiologic reactions to their imagery. Waking imagery was very realistic for the fantasizers. The fantasizers greatly enjoyed stories, movies, and drama; they tended to prolong their experience of these by incorporating them into their fantasy lives, providing another source of imaginary companions. Fantasizers all had some experiences which they considered "psychic." Dissociaters were somewhat more like the fantasizers in how they reacted to external drama. Dissociaters experienced dramatic psychophysiological reactions even more extreme than those of fantasizers. Several dissociaters described some hypnotic phenomena as mildly unpleasant and/or asked questions seeking reassurance that responses such as hallucinations were normal in the hypnotic situation.
