out-of-body experience

1. 1.

   the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body

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Questions about out-of-body experience

What does out-of-body experience mean?

out-of-body experience means "the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body".

Is out-of-body experience a common word?

out-of-body experience is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.