Autoscopy
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Autoscopy is the experience in which one perceives one’s surrounding environment from a different perspective, from a position outside of one’s own body. Autoscopy comes from the ancient Greek autós a
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Doppelgänger
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A doppelgänger is a supernatural double of a living person, especially one who haunts the doubled person. In fiction and mythology and in common parlance, the doppelgänger either is a ghost or a paran
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…seeing one's own body at a distance". It can occur as a symptom in schizophrenia and epilepsy. Heautoscopy is considered a possible explanation for doppelgänger phenomena. The term polyopic heautoscopy refers to cases where more than one double is perceived. In 2006, Peter Brugger and his colleagues described…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864
Percy Shelley, per Mary Shelley, had claimed to have met his own doppelgänger.
William Wilson and his doppelgänger, in Edgar Allan Poe's story (illustration by Arthur Rackham)
A scene in The Student of Prague, where the student Balduin faces his double