out-of-body experience
Floating above yourself
An out-of-body experience is a sensation of perceiving the world from a location outside one's physical body, often including seeing oneself from above.
These experiences are reported during near-death situations, deep meditation, anesthesia, or trauma: She described floating above the operating table, watching the surgeons work.
The term also applies metaphorically to moments of intense dissociation or surreal detachment: The whole interview felt like an out-of-body experience.
Soul separating from flesh
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- separationState of being apart
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
depersonalization · exteriorization · hovering · weightlessness · derealization · disconnection · ethereal · disembodied
Supernatural dimension of existence
- higher selfOne's transcendent inner nature
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
meditation · consciousness expansion · chakra · kundalini · shamanic journey · vision quest · mystical · sacred
Mind journeying outside body
- soul journeyMetaphysical path of growth
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- ectoplasmSupposed supernatural exudate
- mediumshipCommunicating with the dead
seance · channeling · psychic · clairvoyance · supernatural · parapsychology · ghostly · specter
Perception without external cause
- temporal lobeBrain section for hearing
- ketamineDissociative anesthetic agent
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- sleep paralysisTemporary waking immobility
REM · sensory deprivation · brain stimulation · dissociative · epilepsy · migraine · trauma · fever
Based on personal perspective
- first-person"I" as narrator
- veridicalGenuinely true, not illusory
- self-perceptionHow one views oneself
- embodimentConcrete manifestation of idea
proprioception · perspective shift · observer · experiential · phenomenal · qualia · introspection · spatial awareness
astral projection
Soul separating from flesh
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- separationState of being apart
dissociation · depersonalization · exteriorization · hovering · weightlessness · derealization · disconnection · ethereal · disembodied · watching from above
astral plane
Supernatural dimension of existence
- higher selfOne's transcendent inner nature
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
awakening · meditation · consciousness expansion · chakra · kundalini · shamanic journey · vision quest · mystical · sacred · divine encounter
astral travel
Mind journeying outside body
- soul journeyMetaphysical path of growth
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- ectoplasmSupposed supernatural exudate
mediumship · seance · channeling · psychic · clairvoyance · supernatural · parapsychology · ghostly · specter · phantasm
hallucination
Perception without external cause
- temporal lobeBrain section for hearing
- ketamineDissociative anesthetic agent
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
sleep paralysis · REM · sensory deprivation · brain stimulation · dissociative · epilepsy · migraine · trauma · fever · oxygen deprivation
subjective
Based on personal perspective
- first-person"I" as narrator
- veridicalGenuinely true, not illusory
- self-perceptionHow one views oneself
embodiment · proprioception · perspective shift · observer · experiential · phenomenal · qualia · introspection · spatial awareness
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
- mystic powerspsychic powers, psychic abilities, clairvoyance, third eye, telepathy
- supernatural phenomenalevitation, telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, apparition
- astral projectionastral projection, astral travel, astral plane, astral body, out-of-body
- Dissociationdissociation, depersonalization, derealization, multiple personality disorder, alter
- delusionsdelusions of grandeur, grandeur, paranoia, erotomania, persecution complex
out-of-body experienceembodiment
Concrete manifestation of idea
bodily presence · proprioception · incarnation · body awareness