I can give examples. During my last major psychosis I was driving a car. The bushes by the
side of the road had extra ‘salience’. They were not simply bushes, but as I passed them by
they seemed to be guiding me on the way to an unknown destination. The dysregulation of
the salience was in the fact that I saw the bushes as showing me the way, whereas they were
not in fact doing so. Most people can relate to this sort of experience as it is similar to
dreams. As for delusions, when I felt that the thoughts in my head were not my own, I quasi-
rationally explained them as coming from computers – one at work, one at my home, and
one at the home of a close friend (George, 1987, 1988).