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out-of-body experience

noun

  1. Abbreviation: OBE OOBEa vivid feeling of being detached from one's body, usually involving observing it and its environment from nearby Compare near-death experience

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It’s an out-of-body experience and just comes from somewhere else.

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“You call that an out-of-body experience,” James said.

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Dowden, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, described being presented with the honour by the King as being like an "out-of-body experience".

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Listening to all of this feels like an out-of-body experience.

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The whole date was an out-of-body experience, like I was watching us chat from above.

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