hi OA,

Just to say that I read the 3rd person choice as you did and to just add that the 3rd personizing of what I too think is himself seems appropriate to what we think of as 'out of body' experiences - observing ourselves as if 'dissolved' into space and looking down on our corporal state of being with, as you say, detachment ... fitting the titular theme...

z

(but i still had a problem with it :-)