Editing Autoscopic Rumination (section)

===Description===
Autoscopic rumination describes a cognitive phenomenon in which a person mentally “steps outside” themselves while continuing to engage in repetitive, often distressing thought patterns.  

Unlike ordinary rumination, Autoscopic rumination refers to rumination infused with an autoscopic element, whereby one not only broods repetitively but experiences that brooding as if observing oneself from outside the body.

This creates a split awareness:
* The experiencing self (emotionally immersed)
* The observing self (mentally narrating or visualizing the experience)

The term is particularly applicable to artistic works that blend first-person suffering with third-person observational imagery.