Are You a Transliminal Personality?

By Robin M. Strom

If you're interested in finding out how you rate, take the transliminality survey below and find out.

Thalbourne Transliminality Index (1998)

Answer true or false on the 30 questions below. More true answers indicate a higher transliminality rating.

1 Horoscopes are right too often for it to be a coincidence.

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

3 I have experienced an altered state of consciousness in which I felt that I became cosmically enlightened.

4 At the present time, I am very good at make-believe and imagining.

5 I have felt that I had received special wisdom, to be communicated to the rest of humanity.

6 I have sometimes behaved in a much more impulsive or uninhibited way than is usual for me.

7 I am fascinated by new ideas, whether or not they have practical value.

8 I have sometimes sensed an evil presence around me, although I could not see it.

9 My thoughts have sometimes come so quickly that I couldn’t write them all down fast enough.

10 If I could not pretend or make-believe anymore, I wouldn’t be me – I wouldn’t be the same person.

11 Sometimes I experience things as if they were doubly real

12 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.

13 Often I have a day when indoor lights seem so bright that they bother my eyes.

14 I am convinced that I have had at least one experience of telepathy between myself and another person.

15 I am convinced that I am psychic.

16 I have experienced an altered state of awareness which I believe utterly transformed (in a positive manner) the way I looked at myself.

17 I am convinced that I have had a premonition about the future that came true and which (I believe) was not just a coincidence

18 I think I really know what some people mean when they talk about mystical experiences.

19 I have gone through times when smells seemed stronger and more overwhelming than usual.

20 I can clearly feel again in my imagination such things as: the feeling of a gentle breeze, warm sand under bare feet, the softness of fur, cool grass, the warmth of the sun and the smell of freshly cut grass.

21 A person should try to understand their dreams and be guided by or take warnings from them.

22 While listening to my favorite music, in addition to feeling calm, relaxed, happy etc,, I often have a feeling of oneness with the music, or of being in another place or time, or vividly remembering the past.

23 At times, I somehow feel the presence of someone who is not physically present.

24 I am convinced that it is possible to gain information about the thoughts, feelings or circumstances of another person, in a way that does not depend on rational prediction or normal sensory channels

25 For several days at a time I have had such a heightened awareness of sights and sounds that I cannot shut them out.

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

27 Now that I am grown up, I still in some ways believe in such things as elves, witches, leprechauns, fairies, etc.

28 Sometimes people think I’m a bit weird because my ideas are so novel.

29 When listening to organ music or other powerful music, I sometimes feel as if I’m being lifted up into the air.

Posted by Robin M. Strom-Mackey at 8:10 AM

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