Drug-induced hallucinations also frequently involve a sense of a splitting of one's awareness. That is, people experiencing such hallucinations often feel they have become two people, each of which is pursuing its own activities. People experiencing NDEs, on the other hand, tend to remain lucid as they observe their dying bodies from outside.
而且藥物幻覺發生時，患者會經歷意識分裂的混亂狀態，覺得自己變成了 2 個人，各自進行不同活動；這和瀕死體驗者脫離肉體，意識清明地靜靜旁觀自己的垂死軀殼又不同。