http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_of_reference
Ideas of reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous phenomena in the world refer to them directly or have special personal significance. In psychiatry, delusions of reference form part of the diagnostic criteria for psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder, or bipolar disorder during the elevated stages of mania.
Persons with ideas of reference may experience:
A feeling that people on television or radio are talking about or talking directly to them. Talking to me or for me to hear. Showing me something. (And probably others in the same state of mind)
Believing that headlines or stories in newspapers are written especially for them. See above.
Having the experience that people (often strangers) drop hints or say things about them behind their back. No.
Believing that events (even world events) have been deliberately contrived for them, or have special personal significance for them. Events can be believed to have a significant meaning to me that I should try to understand.
Seeing objects or events as being set up deliberately to convey a special or particular meaning to themselves. At least as if they were set up deliberately in order to convey their particular meaning.
Thinking persons or groups of persons are plotting against them and that precautions must be taken to avert the threat. The opposite. A benign conspiracy waiting for me to go on with the process. Impatient, I sometimes feel like I'm the one waiting.
http://www.st-max.org/
In the woodcuts the women are often dressed extremely simply so we endeavor to stay simple and yet be wonderfully german. Don't worry, they still mistake us for nobility so we must look fabulous! If you are worried about looking 'unique' do some research on you head covering or hat, there are lots of wonderful choices, or make a smocked apron.
Apron May be a simple rectangle at the waist for the kitchen or a gig. May be a narrow smocked at the top with a tie around the neck. These were worn as status items and were carefully pleated and embroidered. A double apron with the same narrow one down the back is another option. Full skirt aprons with the waist smocked were quite common.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7021725.ece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI
A red shield mantled in gold and with a gold scallop shell; the right (for the bearer of the shield, the left for the viewer) part of the mantle has a moor's head in its natural colour (brown) wearing a red crown and red collar; the left part of the mantle has a walking bear in its natural colour (brown) carrying a red pack tied with black bands.
A shield divided by curved lines draping from the upper center of the shield to either side. The upper sections are gold (yellow) and the base is red. In the shield's upper right (as observed by the person carrying the shield) is a Moor's head in natural color wearing a crown and collar (the head is also called a "Moor of Freising" or "caput ethiopicum"). In the upper left is a walking brown bear in natural color bearing a red pack fastened with black belts (the bear is also known as "Corbinian's bear"). In the base is a gold scallop shell.
A bear killed Corbinian's pack horse on the way to Rome and so the saint commanded it to carry his load. Once he arrived in Rome, however, he let the bear go, and it lumbered back to its native forest.
