#autoscopy

[oceansubconscious]

Autoscopy — seeing a copy of oneself

Dante and Vergil, carbon copies.

inspired by @two-bees-poetry ♥︎

[funeral]

[gotmetalkinginmysleep]

A Spoonful of Honey

Genre: Fluff and Self-care with Jooheon x Reader (Y/N)

Warnings: Descriptions of a panic attack in a social scenario, Autoscopy commonly called Out-Of-Body Experiences (OBEs). These may be unsettling for some.

Summary: The winter holidays should bring you joy, but your social anxiety gets the better of you.

Reference: Toge by Mokyo

Word count: 565 words

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Laughter fills your family home. Scented aromas all around filling the air with notes of cinnamon, mulled wine and the occasional slice of orange. The warm concoction plunged into your hands by your family, all who seem to be welcoming your partner as one of them. Jooheon beams a smile at you, where you smile briefly in reply hearing the stories from family members who you haven’t seen since last year; sipping gently at your drink.

You feel a flush burn up your cheeks, assuming it’s the alcohol in your hands you try your best to brush it off, placing your drink on the table. The noises in the room blur, like a mild hum, making it hard to concentrate. Your vision starts to tunnel, feeling claustrophobic as the scene around you fades to black. You want to break out yet you’re unable to, your brain wide awake but your body is fast asleep. You hope it’s at this point, you’ll snap out of it, just like it does most of the time. Inside you’re hoping, praying that you’ll just come to, but not this time. You literally see and feel yourself slipping. Like your soul has been pulled out and you’re seeing the scene in the third person.

No one else in the room notices what’s happening as they continue their conversation, but Joo does. He sees you zoned out in the corner of his eye and although you both don’t know exactly what causes this or why it happens, he knows how to support you. The first time this happened you called it your ‘Zoned Out Time’ describing as best as you can to him. He knows it would only last a few seconds but to you, it feels like hours disassociated with the world around you and can feel scary at times. 

Joo knows the last thing you would want right now is a scene. You continue running on autopilot, blinking and breathing, completely undetectable that something is wrong. However, the slightly vacant expression on your face is his telltale sign. He gently grasps your hand, rubbing his thumb across your knuckles, back and forth slowly while you’re trying to reattach. He knows the sound of his voice and his gentle touch will help you to relax, silently giving you comfort as you come to. 

Leaning in, Joo tries not to make it obvious to your family as they continue talking, whispering, “Do you need me to get you out of here?” 

You shake your head, an automatic response that seems to be the only power you have right now. “Ok Jagi, I’m right here and not going anywhere. Tell me when you’re back, ok?” 

You see the loving scene as an out-of-body experience, Joo reassuring you through subtle caresses and the occasional glance, all while playing it cool and calm with the others in the room. He turns to you, whispering something which you hear as a muffled echo. Suddenly you’re pulled back into your body and you squeeze his hand back in response; the tell you both agreed on so he knows you’ve returned.

“What did you say, Honey?” you ask quietly into his ear, “Sorry, I missed it.”

Gently squeezing your hand, a smile spreads across his face and eyes, pleased that you’re back. Joo softly repeats the question, 

“Jagi, did you want some honey in your mulled wine?”

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[sadreturn]

Autoscopy is the experience in which an individual perceives the surrounding environment from a different perspective, from a position outside of his or her own body.[1] Autoscopy comes from the ancient Greek αὐτός ("self") and σκοπός ("watcher").

Autoscopy has been of interest to humankind from time immemorial and is abundant in the folklore, mythology, and spiritual narratives of most ancient and modern societies. Cases of autoscopy are commonly encountered in modern psychiatric practice.[2] According to neurological research, autoscopic experiences are hallucinations.[1][3]

[annapoleon]

AUTOSCOPY FOR DUMMIES

An installation at the crossroads of sculpture, mapping and animation film. Antonin De Bemels transforms a wood sculpture into a living dummy, that tries desperately to find out whether it is human or not. It misses a lot of important body parts, like legs, arms, eyes, mouth... but wonders if all these human attributes are really necessary to be human. How can an inanimate object become a living thing? The installation shows the existential quest of a nonexistent being, and is at the same time a reflection on our own existential drift.

Contact: antonindb (a) bruxxel.org or werktank.org/

AUTOSCOPY: "Autoscopy was defined by Critchley (1950) as 'delusional dislocation of the body image into the visual  sphere' and by Lukianowicz (1958) as 'a complex psychosensorial hallucinatory perception of one's own  body image projected into the external visual space'. Both these imply that the self remains associated with the physical body and that a duplicate body is seen at a distance." (Susan Blackmore, Ph.D.)

DUMMY: 1) a figure representing the human form, used for displaying clothes, in a ventriloquist's act, as a target, etc. 2) a copy or imitation of an object, often lacking some essential feature of the original

[funeral]

Polyopic Heautoscopy: Case Report and Review of the Literature

[funeral]

Autoscopic Phenomena

1. Out-of-body experience:

Suddenly it was as if he saw himself in the bed in front of him. He felt as if he were at the other end of the room, as if he were floating in space below the ceiling in the corner facing the bed from where he could observe his own body in the bed. [. . .] he saw his own completely immobile body in the bed; the eyes were closed.’

2. Autoscopic hallucination:

[. . .] the patient suddenly noticed a seated figure on the left. ‘It wasn’t hard to realize that it was I myself who was sitting there. I looked younger and fresher than I do now. My double smiled at me in a friendly way.’

3. Heautoscopy:

[The patient] has the immediate impression as if she were seeing herself from behind herself. She felt as if she were ‘standing at the foot of my bed and looking down at myself.’ Yet, [...], the patient also has the impression to ‘see’ from her physical [or bodily] visuo-spatial perspective, which looked at the wall immediately in front of her. Asked at which of these two positions she thinks herself to be, she answered that ‘I am at both positions at the same time’

—Olaf Blankea and Christine Mohr, “Out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, and autoscopic hallucination of neurological origin: Implications for neurocognitive mechanisms of corporeal awareness and self consciousness”

[spin-formation]

SPINRELEASE - AUTOSCOPY (new color) by Yoyorecreation

Yoyorecreationより、ミウラハジメ選手シグネイチャーモデル『AUTOSCOPY』の新色が2022年3月22日（火）より発売。

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