out-of-body experience
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8.3
- noun
- /ˈaʊt əv ˈbɒdi ɪkˈspɪəriəns/
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experiencia extracorporal
- It was like I had this out of body experience, and I could actually see myself.
But I still felt that sort of out of body experience.
- But I still felt that sort of out of body experience.
- And then if you do it right, they have an out of body experience.
- I feel like the the whole day today, I'm just having this out of body, out of body experience.
- Where I you had an out of body experience?
- This is how this is how my out of body experience, what was precipitated from this right?
- It was an Aussie woman in me and I ended up, it was kind of an out of body experience, but I won the bracelet.
Examples
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Have you ever had an out-of-body experience?
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So it was a kind of a weird out of body experience that I think I'm still kind of recovering from.
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Similar concepts of out of body experiences appear in various other religious traditions.
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At that point, I had that out-of-body experience.
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I was beginning to feel like I was having an out-of-body experience.
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Often the first thing that happens is what's called an out-of-body experience.
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In an out-of-body experience, you feel as if you're located outside your body, often at an elevated vantage point.
Academic text (2016) -
I guess we could call it an out-of-body experience—some part of me watching me and smiling.
Blog text (14) -
Have you ever had an out-of-body experience where you felt you were watching yourself from above?
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During my meditation, I had an out-of-body experience that made me feel disconnected from my physical form.
Synonyms
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9.9
Seeing your own body from outside as if watching yourself
A state of having no physical body, as if a mind existed without a body
How Detached
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
out-of-body + experience
The phrase is compositionally built from 'out' + 'of' + 'body' combined with 'experience', so a learner who knows these words can infer an event in which someone is ‘outside’ their body. The meaning (feeling of observing one’s body from an external vantage point) follows directly from the constituents and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically, making it readily understandable.
Etymology
Out-of-body experience comes from the strong picture of being literally out of your body, as if you float above and can see yourself from outside. So, it means 'feeling as if you are outside your own body', often during extreme stress, serious illness, or near-death moments.