Abstract
Starting from our personal experience, and proceeding through the systematic sampling and structuralization of
numerous cases of "solipsistic experience", we tried to establish a theme for psychological study based on these
neglected experiences. All cases were treated as "texts", that is, data for qualitative analysis. In section 1, several
spontaneous cases, some corresponding to the two types of solipsism, were presented and considered in order to
motivate and facilitate a more systematic study. In section 2, three sampling fields, which were collections of "Iexperience"
from college students, were presented and considered, since many cases similar to solipsistic experience
were found in the three sampling fields. The method of assessing these cases was characterized as an "idiomodific"
method, and a special kind of questionnaire method to collect these cases was called the "recollection inducing
questionnaire method". In section 3, 60 cases in total from the three sampling fields were selected by three "judges".
These cases were newly categorized as "solipsistic experiences and fantasies". They were arranged according to three
classification axes: "doubt about others/ doubt about the world", "looking down/ looking up", and "philosophical/
fantastic". In section 4, the significance of the three-dimensional model constructed above was considered. Several
methodological reflections were added.
