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out-of-body
[out-uhv-bod-ee]
adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by the dissociative sensation of perceiving oneself from an external vantage point, as though the mind or soul has left the body and is acting on its own.
an alleged out-of-body experience.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of out-of-body1
Example Sentences
It’s an out-of-body experience and just comes from somewhere else.
The anterior precuneus, situated between the brain’s two hemispheres, has also been linked to out-of-body experiences.
Even psychedelic experiences or other out-of-body experiences ultimately boil down to signals in the brain that can be jarring when they disrupt the thought patterns or narrative that our “self” has been telling us, Metzinger explained.
Bigna Lenggenhager, a neuroscientist at the University of Zurich, said these same regions of the brain were active when people had out-of-body experiences stimulated from virtual embodiment exercises.
When these regions of the brain are disturbed through experiments like the rubber hand illusion, people report feeling out-of-body experiences.
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