autoscopic

“Perhaps not surprisingly, the advanced symptoms of known tetrodotoxin poisoning merge with those of what Western physicians have termed the autoscopic near-death experience NDE.”

Simon & Schuster: The Serpent and the Rainbow

“Sometimes survivors of autoscopic near-death experiences recall conversations between attending physicians and nurses.”

Simon & Schuster: The Serpent and the Rainbow

“But, oh! my little friends of the north; my struggling, strenuous, introspective, self-analysing, autoscopic, and generally reentrant friends, who spout the 'Hue!”

The Path to Rome

“Metzinger briefly touches on four varieties of autoscopic (self-seeing) phenomena, all of which can be related to distinct areas of the brain: autoscopic hallucination, where the subject sees an image of themselves; the feeling of a presence, where the subject has the strong sense of someone there without seeing anyone; the particularly disturbing heautoscopy, where the subject sees another self and switches back and forth into and out of it, unsure which is 'the real me'; and the better-known”

Conscious Entities