out-of-body
Spirit leaving flesh
Out-of-body describes the sensation of perceiving oneself from outside one's physical form.
An out-of-body experience involves feeling detached from the body, often floating above it—reported during near-death episodes, meditation, or anesthesia.
The term extends figuratively to moments of surreal detachment: Watching myself on video was an out-of-body experience.
Something that extends outward
- travelMovement between locations
- planeWinged flying vehicle
- realmGoverned territory or sphere
- cordFlexible twisted strand
separation · floating · hovering · departure · return · journey · voyaging · bilocation
Delicate beyond earthly measure
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- incorporealNot made of matter
- intangibleNot physically present
phantasmal · insubstantial · immaterial · nonphysical · wraithlike · discarnate · formless · bodiless
Innermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
ascension · aura · chakra · meditation · clairvoyance · enlightenment · nirvana · karma
projection
Something that extends outward
cord · separation · floating · hovering · departure · return · journey · voyaging · bilocation · exteriorization
ethereal
Delicate beyond earthly measure
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- incorporealNot made of matter
intangible · phantasmal · insubstantial · immaterial · nonphysical · wraithlike · discarnate · formless · bodiless · weightless
soul
Innermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
reincarnation · ascension · aura · chakra · meditation · clairvoyance · enlightenment · nirvana · karma · prana
tunnel
Enclosed underground route
peace · bliss · boundary · returning · resuscitation · flatline · coma · anesthesia · trauma · drowning
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
- near-death experiencestunnel of light, white light, bright light, life review, floating sensation
- supernatural statesenchanted, bewitched, hexed, cursed, possessed
- astral projectionastral projection, astral travel, astral plane, OBE, astral realm
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo