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  • Perhaps not surprisingly, the advanced symptoms of known tetrodotoxin poisoning merge with those of what Western physicians have termed the autoscopic near-death experience NDE.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • Sometimes survivors of autoscopic near-death experiences recall conversations between attending physicians and nurses.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • But, oh! my little friends of the north; my struggling, strenuous, introspective, self-analysing, autoscopic, and generally reentrant friends, who spout the 'Hue!

    The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Metzinger briefly touches on four varieties of autoscopic (self-seeing) phenomena, all of which can be related to distinct areas of the brain: autoscopic hallucination, where the subject sees an image of themselves; the feeling of a presence, where the subject has the strong sense of someone there without seeing anyone; the particularly disturbing heautoscopy, where the subject sees another self and switches back and forth into and out of it, unsure which is 'the real me'; and the better-known

    Conscious Entities 2009

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