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[[File:fire12 210.jpg|link=Doctor Strange|frame|The lights are on, but nobody's home.]]
As, essentially, a living [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]], the character can go just about anywhere, see and hear anything, and potentially engage in [[Invisible Jerkass]] behaviour, depending on whether he can [[Mind Over Matter|move objects telekinetically]]. Also like ghosts, characters who are Astral Projecting may use [[Demonic Possession]] to take over host bodies, though this doesn't necessarily allow them to [[Telepathy|pry into their mind]]. Most victims usually have no idea what happened afterward.
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Compare [[Animal Eye Spy]], where the character can see other locations through an animal's eyes.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Only the most powerful [[Psychic Powers|Newtypes]] in the various incarnations ''[[Gundam]]'' have this ability. Examples include series protagonist [[Ace Pilot|Camille Vidan]] and main villains [[Dark Messiah|Paptimus Scirocco]] and [[Lady of War|Haman Kahn]] of ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]]'', [[Lovable Rogue|Judau Ashita]] in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Double Zeta]]'', and [[The Hero|Amuro Rei]] by the time of ''[[
* Something like this happens in the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' episode where Ash visits the Pokèmon tower in hopes of catching a ghost type Pokèmon that can help him beat Sabrina. While trying to capture one, he and Pikachu get knocked out by a [[Falling Chandelier of Doom|falling chandelier]] and Haunter takes the oppurtunity to pull their spirits out of their bodies. Ash discovers that the ghost Pokèmon just wanted some friends to play with, but tells them that he can't stay with them because he has to continue his quest to become a Pokèmon master. The ghost Pokèmon are disappointed by this, but they allow Ash and Pikachu to return to their bodies.
* Production I.G.'s ''[[Ghost Hound]]'' features a group of teenage boys who each gained the ability to enter the "[[Spirit World|Unseen World]]" after a traumatizing experience they went through in their own childhood. For the former half of the series, they use it to investigate their own past trauma.
* The bedridden Grove in ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]'' has the power of astral projection, his soul becoming a powerful entity, though doing so drains his life.
* Schierke of ''[[Berserk]]'' uses this to communicate with the elemental spirits that power her magic and occasionally [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|to go into Guts' mind to snap him out of the influence of his]] [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Perona uses this to counter Ussop's immunity to her negative hollows.
** During the two-year [[Time Skip]] in ''[[One Piece]]'', this ability is developed by {{spoiler|Brook}}, apparently as an extension of his {{spoiler|Undead Fruit}} powers. [[Power Perversion Potential|Guess what was the first thing he did with it]]?
* In the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' manga an old man has this ability and uses it to enter and alter Ranma's dreams to date
* In the first movie of ''[[
* The Silver Tribe of ''[[Heroic Age]]'' frequently does this, and are capable of it across the vastness of the galaxy. Dhienalia, the human princess, is also capable of it, and makes use of it for long-distance communication, or guiding the ship through uncharted space. It's apparently pretty well-known, as no one shows the slightest surprise when someone does it.
* Yurie, the title character of ''[[Kamichu!]]'', discovers that this is one of her powers by accident - and her spirit familiars are as surprised (and more worried) by this as she is, hinting that astral projection is ''not'' one of the standard godly powers in that setting. In a later episode, she does this deliberately to visit the ''Yamato''.
== Comic Books ==
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* As the picture indicates, [[Doctor Strange]] has this down to an art form.
== Fan
* In the [[Alternate Universe Fic]]
== Film ==
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* After getting caught by the police, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[976-EVIL]]'' uses his [[One Phone Call]] and receives this power from the title phone number to continue his wrongdoings.
▲== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Prue from ''[[Charmed]]'' develops this as a power in the second season although it's treated more like [[Me's a Crowd|cloning]].
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] did this once on ''[[The Weird Al Show]]''. Once he achieved it, all he did was go watch TV for a while before returning to his body.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Nightmares". A twelve-year-old boy in a coma manages to do this (thanks to the Hellmouth's all-purpose magic-boost), but causes everyone's nightmares to come to life. Buffy has to help him defeat his own nightmare - the guy who put him in the hospital - for him to wake up.
{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Could I be seeing Billy's asteroid body?
'''Giles:''' ''Astral'' body. }}
* "I'll be Watching You", the first episode of ''Ghosts'', a 6-episode BBC horror series from 1995: The protagonist is a gangster on a long prison sentence. He uses astral projection to spy on and kill his wife and brother (who were having an affair) and an old associate. {{Spoiler|While he's out projecting, a prison guard finds his apparently lifeless body. The resuscitation attempts cause his projected self to lose consciousness and he wakes up in a coffin, buried next to his wife and brother.}}
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'': Esmeralda Weatherwax can move her consciousness away from her body and share an experience with a target, or several as in ''[[
* Is a central theme in [[James Herbert]]'s ''Nobody True.''
* The telepathically-gifted on [[Darkover]] do this a lot; there's a [[Spirit World|psychic plane]] called the Overworld where they do various kinds of work (and occasionally engage in mortal combat...)
* Seems to be ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'''s primary method of traveling to Barsoom.
== [[Oral Tradition]], Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* [[Older Than Print]]: Iron Crutch Li, one of the Chinese Eight Immortals, was once a handsome man with the power of astral projection. He told his apprentice to wait seven days before cremating his body, but when the apprentice had to go visit his dying mother he had to cremate his master's body early, leaving his master with no choice but to enter the body of a recently deceased old cripple.
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
* Astral travel exists in ''[[Shadowrun]]'', but there's also "decking," when a character with the proper cyber implants sends his consciousness onto the Internet.
* This is pretty common in the ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'', just about every gameline has one version of this.
* ''[[RuneQuest]]'' allows players to become shamans, whose souls travel in the spirit world to commune with greater spirits and capture lesser spirits for their magic or other powers. Usually an ally spirit called a Fetch guards the shaman's body. At least as of Mongoose's ''RQII'' (
== Toys ==
* The [[Mask of Power|Mask of Spirit]] allows the wearer this power in ''[[Bionicle]]''.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', when players die, they control their characters' spirits, roaming the world from a spirit healer point looking for their body to revive.
* In the video game ''[[Prey]]'', Tommy's spirit can be projected from his body. Players can use the ability to pass through forcefields, dangerous obstacles, and attack enemies.
** Also, when the player dies, they can shoot down spirits and regain health in the [[Spirit World]] to return.
* In ''[[BioShock (series)
* One of the psychic toys from ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam & Max: The Devil's
* True to his roots, [[Doctor Strange]] uses this at the beginning of his Level 3 super in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3|Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3]]''.
* In the [[ZX Spectrum]] games ''Avalon'' and ''Dragontorc'', the protagonist is an astral projection.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' going out-of-body allows to see other [[Spirit World|Etheric]] entities and magic in colour, over grey shapes of the material world, and even communicate "invisibly"—unless there's another observer in the same state, of course. Strong reactions translate to the body—Antimony and George during the memory-dump didn't move, but wept. Later when Annie saw Lindsay and Bud kissing and when Red was surprised by Annie's trick this reflected in appropriate grimaces on their bodies. At least [[The Lost Woods|Gillitie Wood]] creatures turned humans {{spoiler|can leave their bodies "on autopilot" speed-type the lesson in the real world}} while they fly around and are distracted by something more interesting ("We's don't need our minds to learn dis junk!") and create illusions from memory if they concentrate a little.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In the ''[[Chakona Space]]'' stories Skunktaurs of House Blackpaw have this ability, as do Chakats sired by them and some other individuals of different species.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The sheep talisman in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' does this. Lead to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when someone tried to use it in battle.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Aang can astral project into the spirit world (or accidentally into the material one). It's suggested normal people might have this happen to them on rare
* Doctor Orpheus in ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' can do this, usually for the sake of communicating with Jefferson and/or The Alchemist.
** Unfortunately,
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