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. 2010 Jan 1;33(1):59–68. doi: 10.1093/sleep/33.1.59

Table 1.

Examples of Alpine Racer-related mentation

Related Imagery Related Thought
Examples of Direct Incorporation “I get like flashes of that… game in my head, virtual reality skiing game… downhill umm race, in my head. Umm, there's this one particular corner that I haven't quite been able to master, and every time I get flashes of it, it's like that corner that umm I keep crashing into in my head.” “I was just thinking about how tonight's my last night doing this experiment umm, and how I did pretty well in today's ahh afternoon session, last, my last session with the Alpine Racer game.”
“I once again, saw the, the game, it was smooth at first, and then it went into the cave, and then it just stopped like abruptly, like the game turned off” “I'm thinking about the game, the game that I should have used my knees more, like bent my legs, and that would have been better.”
Examples of Indirect Incorporation “I do have this weird sensation – it's almost like when you've been on a small boat for a while and you step onto the dock, you have the rocking sensation – well, I feel like I'm on the, the Alpine Racer at times, even when I'm lying in bed, just the backward and forward motion” “I was thinking about, um I was about to say a downhill banana (laughs), but uh I don't know exactly what that means.”
“I was in a race. Um, like a running race, um… sort of like through San Francisco. It was kind of hilly and it wasn't difficult. Like, I was just kind of coasting through the race I think.” “I was just falling asleep and thinking about the Olympics and some of the events that went on there.”