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Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin
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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 extremely rare and, to date, no testable neuroscientific theory exists. The present study describes phenomenological, neuropsychological and neuroimaging correlates of OBE and AS in six neurological patients. We provide neurological evidence that both experiences share important central mechanisms. We show that OBE and AS are frequently associated with pathological sensations of position, movement and perceived completeness of one's own body. These include vestibular sensations (such as floating, flying, elevation and rotation), visual body-part illusions (such as the illusory shortening, transformation or movement of an extremity) and the experience of seeing one's body only partially during an OBE or AS. We also find that the patient's body position prior to the experience influences OBE and AS. Finally, in five patients, brain damage or brain dysfunction is localized to the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). These results suggest that the complex experiences of OBE and AS represent paroxysmal disorders of body perception and cognition (or body schema). The processes of body perception and cognition, and the unconscious creation of central representation(s) of one's own body based on proprioceptive, tactile, visual and vestibular information-as well as their integration with sensory information of extrapersonal space-is a prerequisite for rapid and effective action with our surroundings. Based on our findings, we speculate that ambiguous input from these different sensory systems is an important mechanism of OBE and AS, and thus the intriguing experience of seeing one's body in a position that does not coincide with its felt position. We suggest that OBE and AS are related to a failure to integrate proprioceptive, tactile and visual information with respect to one's own body (disintegration in personal space) and by a vestibular dysfunction leading to an additional disintegration between personal (vestibular) space and extrapersonal (visual) space. We argue that both disintegrations (personal; personal-extrapersonal) are necessary for the occurrence of OBE and AS, and that they are due to a paroxysmal cerebral dysfunction of the TPJ in a state of partially and briefly impaired consciousness.
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“The figure shows results of a mean lesion overlap analysis in five patients with OBEs.The analysis centers on the TPJ.”
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“Because this conscious body model is phenomenally transparent because it cannot introspectively be recognized as a model, we fully identify with its representational content and are consciously present as bodily selves (self-identification) [6,7,23,24].”
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“Out-of-body experiences are associated with a sense of disembodiment and people always self-identify with the illusory body as represented.”
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“Self-identification either refers to the illusory body as represented, the physical body as represented or to both in alternation [23,27,49] (Box 2).”
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“Moreover, self-location and weak 1PP might change their experienced position (between the position of the illusory and the physical body as represented) and this can occur in rapid alternation.”
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“Other patients can describe an auditory weak 1PP that is spatially distinct from their simultaneously present visual weak 1PP [23].”
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“During autoscopic hallucinations, the person sees a second illusory own body from the habitual weak 1PP with normal self-location (at the physical body as represented).”
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“This is compatible with clinical data [23,38,51,58] in which both types of dissociations have been observed in patients with heautoscopy or out-of-body experiences (i.e. a patient [51] experienced the visual weak 1PP at the position of his body, but self-location 2 m behind his body as represented).”
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“Disembodied self location, on the other hand, has been linked to lesion or seizure involving the temporo‐parietal junction (Blanke et al., 2004), or the posterior insula (Heydrich & Blanke, 2013).”
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“The blue dots show the locus of electrical cortical stimulation in the patient in whom an OBE-like phenomenal state was artificially induced.”
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“It is this bodily self or MPS which is altered and abnormal during out-of-body experiences [23-25], heautoscopy (see Box 2) [15,26,27] and experimentally manipulated during the full-body illusion [13,28].”
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“Heautoscopy is highly realistic and the person has most often no insight into the illusory character of the phenomenon.”
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“All three MPS dimensions (self-identification, self-location, weak 1PP) are normal.”
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“MPS breaks down in neurological patients with illusory global own body perceptions, called autoscopic phenomena [23,27,37,47-49], that are characterized by seeing a second own body in extracorporeal space: autoscopic hallucination, heautoscopy, and out-of-body experience (Figure 1) (Box 2).”
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“The position of self-location and weak 1PP can also differ [23].”
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“Heautoscopy is often associated with the sensation of 'being split in two selves' [23].”
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“Self-identification either refers to the illusory body as represented, the physical body as represented or to both.”
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“This is the case in patients with heautoscopy who claim to jump back and forth between two spatially distinct points of view [23,50].”
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“Out-of-body experiences are highly realistic, and most often there is no insight into the illusory character of the phenomenon [23].”
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“Heautoscopy is an intermediate form and self-location and the origin of the weak 1PP are either at the position of the physical body as represented or at the position of the illusory body as represented or at both positions.”
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“autoscopic phenomena indicate that conscious experience can also be characterized by the absence of a unitary visual weak 1PP, or by two simultaneous or rapidly alternating visual weak 1PPs.”
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“During an out-of-body experience, self-location and the weak 1PP are at the position of the illusory body as represented (at a position that is most often elevated with respect to the position of the physical body as represented).”
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“The patient has the impression to see the environment from the physical body as represented in the case of autoscopic hallucination, from the illusory body as represented in the case of out-of-body experience and alternatively or simultaneously from the physical and the illusory body as represented in the case of heautoscopy (after [23]).”
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“Although these neurological observations suggest that certain brain regions might be responsible for generating the habitual experience of being located within one's body and of owning it, they tell us little about the underlying processes.”
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“Similarly, damage to, or abnormal physiology of, frontal, parietal and temporal regions can be associated with feelings of being outside the body [15], [16].”
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“Lesions or seizures in the TPJ may alter the experience of self-location, such as during what are often called out-of-body experiences.”
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“Another striking clinical example of dissociation between self-location and ownership is heautoscopy, during which patients experience seeing a double of themselves in the extrapersonal space (Blanke et al., 2004;Blanke & Mohr, 2005;Brugger, Blanke, Regard, Bradford, & Landis, 2006;Brugger, Regard, & Landis, 1997).”
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“As reported by many of these patients this elevated location is not represented as embodied in a person's body and patients report not perceiving or having reduced perception of somatosensory cues from their body.”
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“The spatial coordinates of this viewpoint transformation were chosen based such transformations in neurological patients with out-of-body experiences [33], [34].”
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“These clinical data suggest that remapping of self-location and first-person perspective from the physical body position to an elevated and distanced position and firstperson perspective in extrapersonal space at the TPJ is based on a double disintegration of bodily signals, including disintegration between visual and vestibular signals.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Blanke, O., Landis, T., Spinelli, L., & Seeck, M.
- Affiliations
- University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Blanke, Olaf
- Venue
- Brain
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2004-02
- Volume
- 127
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 243-258
- ISSN
- 0006-8950 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2156
- OpenAlex
- W2099202374
- Cited by
- 747
- References
- 91
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 41 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 35 · 2012: 25
- FWCI
- 48.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Brain (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (67105, 65323, 68105)
- Fondation Leenaards
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Keywords
- out-of-body experiences, autoscopy, temporoparietal junction, body perception, body schema, vestibular illusions, extrapersonal space, proprioception, neurological patients, sensory integration
- MeSH terms
- Body Image, Depersonalization, Electric Stimulation, Electroencephalography, Female, Hallucinations, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Psychophysiology, Space Perception, Epilepsy, Complex Partial
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