“When a medium is in trance, and they refer to themselves by their name or through the second-person pronoun, they appear to gain a kind of distance from the Self that they would not get if they referred to themselves as ‘me’ or ‘I’. This theory was tested in a series of studies led by Ethan Kross at the University of Michigan.”

Charles Fernyhough – “The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk To Ourselves”