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Autoscopy is defined as an experience in which a person while ''believing to be awake'' sees her/his body and the world from a location outside her/his physical Body . More precisely, autoscopy experiences are characterized by the presence of the following three Phenomena :
Autoscopies have puzzled Humankind from time immemorial and are abundant in the Folklore , Mythology , and spiritual narratives of most Ancient and Modern Societies . Bunning and Blanke ( 2005 ) of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne , and Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva , Switzerland , have reviewed some of the classical precipitating factors of autoscopies. These are sleep, drug abuse, and general anesthesia as well as their neurobiology. They have compared them with recent findings on neurological and neurocognitive mechanisms of the autoscopies. The reviewed data suggest that autoscopies are due to functional disintegration of lower-level multisensory processing and abnormal higher-level self-processing at the temporo-parietal junction. The researchers argue that the experimental investigation of the interactions between these multisensory and cognitive mechanisms in autoscopies and related Illusion s in combination with neuroimaging and behavioral techniques might further our understanding of the central mechanisms of Corporal Awareness and self- Consciousness . See in the article '' Researchers Find an Explanation for Out-of-Body Experiences'' how scientists performed experiments in order to search for an explanation for autoscopies {Link without Title} Heautoscopy , or ''experience of a double'', is a related phenomenon. SEE ALSO
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