In this paper, we investigate whether the personality trait of Absorption is a predisposing factor for hallucinatory experience. Our participants completed a number of questionnaires, assessing absorption, hallucinatory experiences, subjective experiences along the sleep-wakefulness continuum, paranormal experiences and belief, and dissociation. Our findings are indicative of a common, pseudo-hallucinatory experiential base, suggesting that absorption can indeed serve as the predisposing factor for hallucinatory experience. In our discussion, we look at the implications of this finding for applied cognitive psychology, focusing on the study of false memories and reality monitoring, and on the study of probability judgement and paranormal belief.During the past 100 years, there have been occasional reports in the scientific literature of individuals in the general population who claim to have had significant hallucinatory experiences. These studies include Sidgwick (1894), who investigated the incidence of hallucinatory reports in over 17,000 individuals from 10 countries, and West (1948) who questioned approximately 1500 individuals in the United States. Both studies found that approximately 10% of those probed reported hallucinations that did not seem to be related to the use of drugs or the presence of psychopathology. These experiences tended to be visual in nature. However, there were also many reports of hearing sounds of various kinds (auditory hallucinations), of hearing someone talking (verbal hallucinations), and of feeling a touch (cutaneous hallucinations).Over the past 25 years, there has been a modest resurgence in the attempt to investigate the occurrence of hallucinatory experiences in the general population. Sarbin and Juhasz (1967) called the theoretical model that underlies much of that work the Psychological Model of Hallucinations. This general model suggests that hallucinations should not be understood as resulting from some underlying pathology, but rather should be understood as resulting from normal mental processes. As Sarbin and Juhasz point out, authors such as Galton (1883) and James (1892) have written in support of such a model.One particular version of this Psychological Model championed by Slade and Bentall (1988) might be called the Continuum Hypothesis. According to these authors,