People with fantasy prone personalities are more likely to have had parents, or close family members that joined the child in believing toys are living creatures.
Parents or caregivers who indulged in their child's imaginative mental or play environment during childhood. 
This over-exposure to childhood fantasy has at least three important causes: Developmental pathways įantasizers have had a large exposure to fantasy during early childhood.
receiving sexual satisfaction without physical stimulationįantasy proneness is measured by the "inventory of childhood memories and imaginings" (ICMI) and the "creative experiences questionnaire (CEQ). experiencing imagined sensations as real. excellent hypnotic subject (most but not all fantasizers). These characteristics include some or many of the following experiences: Wilson and Barber listed numerous characteristics in their pioneer study, which have been clarified and amplified in later studies. Ī paracosm is an extremely detailed and structured fantasy world often created by extreme or compulsive fantasizers. They also report out-of-body experiences, and other similar experiences that are interpreted by the some fantasizers as psychic (parapsychological) or mystical. Characteristic features įantasy prone persons are reported to spend up to half (or more) of their time awake fantasizing or daydreaming, and will often confuse or mix their fantasies with their real memories. Later research in the 1990s by Deirdre Barrett at Harvard confirmed most of these characteristics of fantasy prone people, but she also identified another set of highly hypnotizable subjects who had had traumatic childhoods and who identified fantasy time mainly by "spacing out". The first systematic studies were conducted in the 1980s by psychologists Judith Rhue and Steven Jay Lynn. fantasies, and treated the child's dolls and stuffed animals in ways that encouraged the child to believe that they were alive." They suggested that this trait was almost synonymous with those who responded dramatically to hypnotic induction, that is, " high hypnotizables". Besides identifying this trait, Wilson and Barber reported a number of childhood antecedents that likely laid the foundation for fantasy proneness in later life, such as, "a parent, grandparent, teacher, or friend who encouraged the reading of fairy tales, reinforced the child's. Barber first identified FPP in 1981, said to apply to about 4% of the population.
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