Attentional Resource Allocation Scale – ARAS

When I listen to music, I can get so caught up in it that I don’t notice anything else.

I find evidence that I have done things that I do not remember doing.

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

I sometimes sit staring off into space, thinking of nothing, and am not aware of the passage of time.

Listening to someone talk and suddenly realizing that I did not hear all or part of what was said.

I find that when I am watching television or a movie I become so absorbed in the story that I am unaware of other events happening around me.

The experience of being in a familiar place but finding it strange and unfamiliar.

The experience of finding myself in a place and having no idea how I got there.

The sound of a voice can be so fascinating to me that I can just go on listening to it.

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.

The experience of feeling that other people, objects, and the world around me are not real.

If I wish, I can imagine (or daydream) some things so vividly that they hold my attention as a good movie or story does.

The experience of feeling as though I am standing next to myself or watching myself do something as if I were looking at another person.

The experience of driving a car and suddenly realizing that I don’t remember what has happened during all or part of the trip.

I am able to wander off into my thoughts while doing a routine task and actually forget that I am doing the task, and then find a few minutes later that I have completed it.