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Compare [[Fever Dream Episode]].
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▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Giant Robo]]'' uses the narration version of this trope to pull off [[Anyone Can Die]]. {{spoiler|Ginrei narrates the beginning of the first episode as if she's flashing back after the end of the story. After she dies in the last episode, her disembodied spirit says a few lines in a post-credits epilogue.}}
* Ash and Pikachu go through this in the ''[[Pokémon]]'' episode in which the team goes to Lavender Town in order to catch a Ghost Pokemon(which he does...kind of). [[Hilarity Ensues]] with Misty and Brock.
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* Erza in [[Fairy Tail]], after she attempts to sacrifice herself to stop the Etherion from killing Natsu.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The [[Spice Girls]] fic ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/163260272-astral-journey-it's-complicated Astral Journey: It's Complicated]'' has the narrator (Emma) and Melanie going through this.
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* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' has a child who can see all sorts of Dead Men Walking. {{spoiler|Including the protagonist, who is totally unaware he's dead.}} It's so old now as to have become a [[It Was His Sled|catch-phrase]], but hey, a spoiler is a spoiler.
* According to director commentary on ''[[The Abyss]]'', the sequence where Ed Harris's character tries to revive his love interest was shot with camera angles meant to evoke the "hovering over your body" idea.
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* In ''[[The Orphanage]]'', {{spoiler|people who are close to death can see ghosts, and the main character can see ghosts because she is dying of cancer.}}
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* ''[[Anansi Boys]]'', by Neil Gaiman, which contains a subplot of the ghost of Maeve Livingstone watching the investigations of her own murder.
* Setup of ''[[The Lovely Bones]]''.
* The [[Christopher Pike]] novel ''Remember Me'' is about a girl who wakes up as a ghost after she is killed by {{spoiler|one of her friends.}} She sees her family finding out about her death, her funeral, and then spends the rest of the book trying to figure out who killed her. After her murder is solved, she
* This troper read a book about a kid who was murdered, but his ghost didn't realize it. He went through an entire school day wondering why nobody could see him or hear him, and then he found out about his murder. The rest of the book was spent with him observing the investigation of his murder and how those he knew reacted to his death. It took place in Canada, this troper thinks. Anybody know what this troper's talking about?{{context|reason=As listed in the example, this work needs to be identified.}}
* In ''[[
* An entire episode of ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* An entire episode of ''[[MASH|M*A*S*H]]'' is told from the point of view of a soldier's ghost, seen by Klinger while the latter [[Fever Dream Episode|recovers from a high fever]].
* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' manages to kill off its [[Narrator]] at the start of the first episode. She continues narrating, giving us glimpses into the personal lives of her still-living friends that they don't get to see in each other. She actually appears to Lynnette in one episode.
* [[MacGyver]] spends an episode in spiritual limbo after the bad guys first put him into a coma, and then try to poison his bed-ridden body. He escapes through the aid of a recently-deceased relative.
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* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'': as various doctors are around a man's body (masking it from view) and finally saying that they lost him, a man walks up and begins to talk about how seeing himself die like that was strange. He even starts giving a speech about death itself...until J.D. comes up and angrily reminds him that he's not dead, just insane.
** However, there is also an episode that plays it straight: J.D. gets sick and has to undergo surgery where he has an out-of-body experience looking over Turk's shoulder as he's operating. Turk asks him (though "the ghost" isn't seen) to go away because he can't concentrate.
* The season two episode "Epiphanies" gave ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''{{'}}s on-the-brink-of-death Laura Roslin the chance to remember [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. It was the day she got told she had terminal breast cancer, got dumped ''and'' fired by the former President, stopped a union crisis, listened as the Cylons nuked her homeworld, got sworn in as the new President, and left a whole bunch of people in the hands of the Cylons. Oh, and she figured out Gaius Baltar betrayed everyone because he was making out with a known Cylon. 'Cept she can't prove it. {{spoiler|Luckily, she said [[Screw Destiny]] and woke the heck up due to some hybrid blood from the extra-special baby Sharon was carrying.}}
* Dean of ''[[Supernatural]]'' did this while in a coma in the season 2 premiere, and his brother used a Ouija board to communicate with him.
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', episode "Meridian", Dr. Jackson lies dying of radiation poisoning. While the other characters take turns sitting at his bedside, he is in deep conversation with [[Energy Beings|Oma Desala]] about whether he is satisfied with the life he led or not. Eventually, he makes himself visible to Jack to tell him to let him die. Then he walks through the active Stargate and [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascends.]]
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* In ''Kingdom Hospital'', Stephen King's [[Author Avatar]] spends nearly the whole series slipping in and out of a ghostly duplicate of the hospital, halfway between life and true death, while his body lies comatose.
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* ''[[Geist: The Sin Eaters
▲* [[Geist: The Sin Eaters|Sin-Eaters]] who bear one of the [[Elemental Powers|Elemental Keys]] and the Oracle Manifestation get a fun variant of this—they're able to undergo an out-of-body experience and travel wherever they wish. Thing is, to do so, they must take damage in one form or another. Depending on the Key in question, this may involve being buried alive, setting yourself on fire, getting strangled, or drowning yourself in the bathtub. Mind you, if you successfully pull it off, you're healed of all damage once you "snap back."
* Similarly, ''[[Orpheus]]'' split the "Laments" between actual ghosts and living people who were able to project their soul out of their body. Skimmers could do it through meditation, but Sleepers required cryogenic tanks to bring their body to a state of "death" that would allow them to "vacate the premises." In fact, that's how Orpheus got into the "post-life management" business—they were doing extensive research into cryogenics, and discovered an interesting side effect...
== [[Web
* A routine event for the titular character in ''[[Nodwick]]''.▼
▲* A routine event for the titular character in [[Nodwick]].
== Western Animation ==▼
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter is struck by lightning and has a [[Near-Death Experience]]. He proceeds to steal money from his own wallet and later tries to reenter his body through the mouth, having about as much success as a flesh-and-blood fat man would have trying to climb inside an unconscious person. [[Grim Reaper|Death (a recurring character)]] shows up to hang out with him for a while as part of his [[Near-Death Experience]], and when Peter asks when he's really going to die, he's told it'll be a few years after Lois divorces him. Peter tries convincing Death that'll never happen, and leads him through a bunch of flashbacks depicting their courtship, showing how deeply in love they were. In the process, Peter realizes that he's been taking Lois for granted lately, and has the epiphany necessary to save his marriage.
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