Talk:Out of body experience

Second person[change source]

Second person sounds less encyclopedic than third person, but it cuts through a lot of complexity in a topic that's intricately entangled with fine and shifting discriminations about what is and isn't subjective. I'll try to keep the usage minimal. Lettuce (talk) 12:12, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Try changing "big feeling of not being where your body is" to something like "big feeling that makes a person feel like they have left their body." --Peterdownunder (talk) 13:10, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for considering this, and for the welcome. A feeling that causes a feeling of a simile is a lot more convoluted than I'd hoped for though! I've been toying with "big feeling [a person gets] of not being where [their] body is", although I think even that blows away a relatively intuitive and direct understanding of a direct experience, by unnaturally forcing interpretation through the lens of an irrelevant third party. Accurately conveying three perspectives in one line is a daunting challenge that I'd like to avoid if at all possible. I'll sleep on it... Lettuce (talk) 14:51, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]