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'.^[16]
• 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'.^[17]