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Fig. 1 Phenomenology of OBE and AS. An OBE is defined as the experience in which a person seems to see his/her body and the world from a location outside the physical body. During an OBE, the experient appears to ‘see’ himself (physical body, depicted on the left) and the world from a location other than his physical body (parasomatic body and visuo-spatial perspective, depicted on the right). AS is defined as the experience of seeing one’s body (depicted on the right) in extrapersonal space, but from the habitual physical visuo-spatial perspective. During AS, the observer thus remains within the boundaries of his physical body (depicted on the left). Both experiences are classified as autoscopic phenomena since, during OBE and AS, the observer sees himself as a part of the extrapersonal world. The direction of the visuo-spatial perspective is indicated by an arrow for both experiences.
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