Out‐of‐body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin
Brain January 15, 2004 Olaf Blanke, Théodor Landis, Laurent Spinelli et al. 746 citations
During an out-of-body experience (OBE), the experient seems to be awake and to see his body and the world from a location outside the physical body. A closely related experience is autoscopy (AS), which is characterized by the experience of seeing one's body in extrapersonal space. Yet, despite great public interest and many case studies, systematic neurological studies of OBE and AS are...