>>40741277
I mean my astral body for real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror-touch_synesthesia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalamus
>Microstimulation of the posterior portion of the ventral medial thalamic nucleus can be used to evoke pain, temperature and visceral sensations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedunculopontine_nucleus
>Recent research has discovered that the pedunculopontine nucleus is involved in the planning of movement, and that different networks of neurons in the pedunculopontine nucleus are switched on during real and imagined movement

Your phantom shapeshifts as you age and can work in reverse too, like when you were a child your visceral feelings are scaled down.
Hence, I just change gender and image myself with wider hips, slender shoulders, and smaller head.

It's like OoBE with imagination.