Autoscopic Projection is a technique that could enable coexistent sensory bilocation (the ability of a person to be 'in two places at once.')
English author Neil Mach discusses the existence of Autoscopic Projection contraptions (that allow true out-of-body travel) in his novels 'Moondog and the Scarce Vapour' and 'Moondog and the Tercet Plume.'
Autoscopic phenomena (from the Greek autos meaning 'self' and skopeo meaning 'looking at') are psychic illusory experiences that consist of the perception of the image of one's own body or face within an alternative space or time.
Autoscopy could adequately be defined as a conscious reduplication of one's body and self in a variant plane to one's typical plane of reference (i.e. to the typical spatial and temporal dimension one occupies.)
In almost all cases, autoscopy is a psychosensorial hallucinatory perception (in other words, it's delusory) but some work has recently been done to fabricate genuine out of body experiences using sensory and haptic technology (state-of-the-art virtual reality equipment.)
The term 'Projection' in this case does not refer to the presentation of an image to an audience but rather to the mental processes involved when an individual attributes their internal thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and even their experiences into an artificial avatar set in a variant plane of reference.
Neil Mach is a novelist, journalist, and writer on fantasy fiction who has authored novels focusing on strong female characters and themes of loyalty and duty. He also writes and presents talks on the history of fantasy and the philosophical aspects of storytelling.
