out-of-body experience
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishout-of-body experienceˌout-of-body exˈperience noun [countable] IMAGINEthe feeling that you are outside your body and looking down on it from above, which people sometimes have when they are close to deathExamples from the Corpusout-of-body experience• At first I thought I might be having an out-of-body experience.